ABSTRACT
Frederika Bremer was a Swedish writer and feminist, who most famously wrote realist novels, not least Hertha that inspired a campaign that led to women receiving the vote. The Homes of the New World was based on a series of letters that she wrote to her sister Agatha and occasionally others, while travelling in the Americas and Caribbean. She set a model for charitable action amongst elite women and encouraged them to take an active role in the community. She is seeking to encourage the queen to take an interest in the condition of African Americans living under slavery, not least through educating and caring for their children. Her case for this is made through a detailed narrative description of her travels in Cuba and the American south, where she compares the condition of free and enslaved communities.
