signed 36 postcards, all completed in manuscript, generally very good or better with some wear and rounded corners
1903 · V.p.
by [Cuba] [Intellectual History]
V.p., 1903. 36 postcards, all completed in manuscript, generally very good or better with some wear and rounded corners.
A fascinating assemblage of cards written by Pre-Castro intellectuals to a Maria de Serra (though a few are written to other women). It is difficult to pin down de Serra, though we do know she was highly educated and very well-known and connected. It makes sense to us that she is perhaps the Maria de Serra mentioned by William Wells Brown in his important work, The Rising Son, or, the Antecedents and advancement of the Colored Race, (1874). On pg 260, Brown writes:
"The free blacks (truncated)
A fascinating assemblage of cards written by Pre-Castro intellectuals to a Maria de Serra (though a few are written to other women). It is difficult to pin down de Serra, though we do know she was highly educated and very well-known and connected. It makes sense to us that she is perhaps the Maria de Serra mentioned by William Wells Brown in his important work, The Rising Son, or, the Antecedents and advancement of the Colored Race, (1874). On pg 260, Brown writes:
"The free blacks (truncated)