Journal of Rachel Wilson Moore, Kept During a Tour to the West Indies and South America, in 1863-64 With Notes from the Diary of her Husband; together with His Memoir
by Truman, George ; Rachel Wilson Moore ; John Wilson Moore
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About This Item
Philadelphia: T. Ellwood Zell. Very Good. 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. 274 pages; Contents clean and secure in original brown cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine; gilt faded at spine, cloth rippled on boards, old owner's name erased from front endpaper. OCLC: 768863 (v)-vii, (1), 9-274 As the Civil War raged during its worst years, Rachel Moore and her husband left cold New York for the Caribbean in an attempt to restore her failing health. At times it seemed the voyage itself was going to kill her. But she survived and kept a journal of her keen observations of life in the islands. What shocked her the most was the state of Caribbean slavery; worse, in her mind, than what she had seen traveling through the American south. A Quaker and an abolitionist, slavery was an absolute evil to her. Her descriptions of slave life, the islands, the people, and what she loved about her time there are all fascinating to read. Contents include: Nassau, Havana, Slaves and slave-ships, Negro amusements, a voyage to St. Thomas, Visits to plantations and sugar grinding, Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada, Trinidad, etc. .
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- 42069
- Title
- Journal of Rachel Wilson Moore, Kept During a Tour to the West Indies and South America, in 1863-64 With Notes from the Diary of her Husband; together with His Memoir
- Author
- Truman, George ; Rachel Wilson Moore ; John Wilson Moore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- T. Ellwood Zell
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1867
- Size
- 8vo.
- Keywords
- Women travellers in the 19th century, Cuba and the Carribean, Sugar Plantations, Slavery and Slaves, Quakers
- Bookseller catalogs
- 19th Century; African American Studies;
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