An American Apprenticeship: The Letters of Emil Frey 1860-1865. Afterword by Hans Rudolf Guggisberg

By: Frey, Emil

Emil Frey's first stay in America, his apprenticeship , is vividly described in his letters which are spirited, opinionated, observant though prejudiced, and sometimes highly amusing. They are also serious and full of good intentions to make the best of often trying circumstances. Frey was a complex and contradictory man - refined yet brutal, admittedly antislavery yet contemptuous of blacks, a man of professed principles yet a pragmatist. He mastered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820402966
• ISBN13: 9780820402963
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.