New Year in Cuba - Mary Garnder Lowell
Mary Gardner Lowell's Travel Diary, 1831-1832 (New England Diary Series)
KORTE INHOUD
In late 1831, at the age of 29, Mary Gardner Lowell and her young son George accompanied her husband, the leading Boston financier and merchant Francis Cabot Lowell II, on a voyage to Cuba, a newly popular destination for Boston gentry. They spent several weeks on the island, traveling from the bustling commercial city of Havanna to the slave plantations of Matanzas province before making their way up the Mississippi River by steamboat on the return home.
Lowell's journal of the adventure that took her from the safe and comfortable environs of Beacon Hill is published here in its entirety for the first time. She describes in vivid detail each event and observation of a journey that crossed many boundaries: between abolitionist Boston and slave-owning Cuba, between the parlor and the sugar mill, between refined Boston and the hinterlands of the Caribbean and river towns of the Mississippi Valley. As befitting a woman of her privileged class, Lowell's diary includes chronicles of social calls, parties, and inv...
Lowell's journal of the adventure that took her from the safe and comfortable environs of Beacon Hill is published here in its entirety for the first time. She describes in vivid detail each event and observation of a journey that crossed many boundaries: between abolitionist Boston and slave-owning Cuba, between the parlor and the sugar mill, between refined Boston and the hinterlands of the Caribbean and river towns of the Mississippi Valley. As befitting a woman of her privileged class, Lowell's diary includes chronicles of social calls, parties, and inv...
