Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland, 1845-1895 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Murray, Hannah-Rose; Mckivigan, John R.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This critical edition documents Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture. With an unprecedented and comprehensive 60,000-word introduction that places the speeches, letters, poetry and images printed here into context, the sources provide extraordinary insight into the myriad performative techniques Douglass used to win support for the causes of emancipation and human rights. Editors examine how Douglass employed various media - letters, speeches, interviews and his autobiographies - to convince the transatlantic public not only that his works were worth reading and his voice worth hearing, but also that the fight against racism would continue after his death.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474460439
• Artikelnr.: 72413704

Autorenporträt

University of Edinburgh Hannah-Rose Murray is an Early Career Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on recovering and amplifying formerly enslaved African American testimony in the British Isles, including forgotten slave narratives, oratory and visual performance, and her digital mapping project (www.frederickdouglassinbritain.com) highlights their experiences and lectures in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. She has organized numerous community events including talks, performances, podcasts, plays and exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic, and conducts both in-person and virtual walking tours of Black abolitionist sites in London. Her first book, Advocates of Freedom: African American Abolitionism in the British Isles was published in September 2020 with Cambridge University Press. John Kaufman-McKivigan is the Mary O'Brien Gibson Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis as well as the Editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers. He is author of numerous books and scholarly articles on abolitionism and other aspects of American reform history. He is currently preparing a study of Frederick Douglass' participation in the overlapping movements for radial political, social, and economic change in the early years of Reconstruction

Inhaltsangabe

Note on the Text
Acknowledgements
Timeline
Map of Frederick Douglass's Speaking Locations
List of Frederick Douglass's Speaking Locations
Part I: "To Tell His Own Story": Frederick Douglass and the British Isles
Part II: "Men Naturally Love Liberty"
Part III: "A Sunbeam into the Darknesses of the Hour": The Responses to
Great Britain
Part IV: "A Comrade in the Fight:" British Responses to Frederick Douglass
Bibliography
Index