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America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer by Fredrika Bremer (1801 - 1865)

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When Fredrika Bremer arrived in New York from Sweden in October 1849, she was already famous throughout America for her novels and for her reformist efforts in Sweden. Thus there was no shortage of invitations, and she met with the leading lights of American culture, along with countless lesser-known people. Her main objective was to see the effect of democratic institutions on society. In her two years in America, she toured New England and met Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Washington Irving; visited Shaker and Quaker communities in Mid-Atlantic states; conversed with Senators in Washington, DC, examined conditions of slaves in the South; and toured Scandinavian frontier communities in the Midwest. She also investigated America's prisons, and everywhere noted the legal status and social situations of women. Throughout her American travels, which ended in September 1851, she reported back all that she saw in letters to h

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Episodes

  1. Boston, December 2

  2. February 15

  3. Introduction

  4. June 27

  5. Macon, May 8

  6. New York, October 4, 1849

  7. July 18

  8. New Orleans, Louisiana, Jan 1, 1851

  9. April 1

  10. Blue Mound, October 8

  11. New York, September 4

  12. Charleston, June 10

  13. July 17

  14. Charleston, South Carolina, May 1

  15. Chicago, September 24

  16. (To the Rev. P.J. Boklin) Cincinnati, Nov 27

  17. Brooklyn, November 5, 1849

  18. Boston, January 22

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When Fredrika Bremer arrived in New York from Sweden in October 1849, she was already famous throughout America for her novels and for her reformist efforts in Sweden. Thus there was no shortage of invitations, and she met with the leading lights of American culture, along with countless lesser-known people. Her main objective was to see the effect of democratic institutions on society. In her two years in America, she toured New England and met Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Washington Irving; visited Shaker and Quaker communities in Mid-Atlantic states; conversed with Senators in Washington, DC, examined conditions of slaves in the South; and toured Scandinavian frontier communities in the Midwest. She also investigated America's prisons, and everywhere noted the legal status and social situations of women. Throughout her American travels, which ended in September 1851, she reported back all that she saw in letters to h

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