Hannah-Rose Murray

Advocates of Freedom (eBook, PDF)

African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles

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Produktbeschreibung

A transatlantic study focusing on African American resistance through unexplored oratorical and performative testimony in the British Isles.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108809498
• Artikelnr.: 70911086

Autorenporträt

Hannah-Rose Murray is Early Career Leverhulme Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, researching formerly enslaved oratorical, visual and literary testimony in the British Isles during the nineteenth century.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'To Tell The Truth': African American activism in the British
Isles 1835-1895; 1. 'It Is Time For The Slaves to Speak': Moses Roper,
white networks and 'Lying Inventions' 1835-1855; 2. 'All the Bloody
Paraphernalia of Slavery': Frederick Douglass' performative strategies on
the Victorian stage; 3. '[They Have] Not Ceased to Hold My Hand Since':
Frederick Douglass, print culture and abolitionist networks; 4. To
'Frighten The Hyena Out Of His Ferocity': black activism in Britain
1850-1860; 5. 'I Would Much Rather Starve In England, A Free Woman, Than Be
A Slave': black women and adaptive resistance 1850-1865; 6. 'Have No
Fellowship I Pray You, With These Merciless Menstealers': black activism,
the Confederacy and scientific racism during the Civil War 1861-1865; 7.
'My Name is Not Tom': Josiah Henson, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and adaptive
resistance after the Civil War 1876-1877; 8. 'The Black People's Side Of
The Story': Ida B. Wells and the anti-lynching crusade in Britain
1893-1894; 9. 'To Tell the Story of the Slave': the legacy of African
American transatlantic resistance.