TRAVELS IN AMERICA 1851-1855.

Author: Roos, Rosalie
Country: Illinois
Language: English
Year Published: 1982
No. of pages: 152
Illustrations: 6 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 9 1/2”x 6 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 080931018X
Biblio/Bio: Bio.
Code: 3566

Price: $34.50

Rosalie Roos ached so much for personal independence, as her own words suggest, that she set sail for the New World to escape the stifling caste of womanhood in the Sweden of the 1850s. From the beginning she considered her decision to travel to America as a test of the strength of her own independent spirit. At the same time she tested the American dream in its marvelously luxurious setting in South Carolina (1851-1855), just when the slavery debate was entering its final and most heated phase before the actual outbreak of war.