Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-4426-2 (ISBN)
The first full-length study of Frederick Douglass’ visit to Scotland in 1846
Frederick Douglass (1818–95) was not the only fugitive from American slavery to visit Scotland before the Civil War, but he was the best known and his impact was far-reaching. This book shows that addressing crowded halls from Ayr to Aberdeen, he gained the confidence, mastered the skills and fashioned the distinctive voice that transformed him as a campaigner. It tells how Douglass challenged the Free Church over its ties with the Southern plantocracy; how he exploited his knowledge of Walter Scott and Robert Burns to brilliant effect; and how he asserted control over his own image at a time when racial science and blackface minstrel shows were beginning to shape his audiences’ perceptions. He arrived as a subordinate envoy of white abolitionists, legally still enslaved. He returned home as a free man ready to embark on a new stage of his career, as editor and proprietor of his own newspaper and a leader in his own right.
Key Features:
First full-length study of Frederick Douglass’ visit to Scotland in 1846Reveals fresh information about, and deepens our understanding of, a major 19th-century intellectual at a crucial stage in his political and professional developmentSubjects Douglass’ speeches and letters to close readings and situates them in the immediate context of their delivery and compositionDemonstrates the extent to which Douglass was closely acquainted with Scottish literature, history and current affairsEnhances our knowledge of Douglass as a performer, his ability to read audiences, and how he moved and influenced them
Alasdair Pettinger studied at the Universities of Birmingham and Essex, completing his PhD in Literature in 1988 while working as a civil servant in London. Since 1992, he has been based in Glasgow, working at the Scottish Music Centre and pursuing his academic interests as an independent scholar. He has held visiting research fellowships at the University of Central Lancashire (2000), Nottingham Trent University (2004-2007) and the University of Liverpool (2010-2013). He is the editor of Always Elsewhere: Travels of the Black Atlantic (1998), and has published a number of essays reflecting his (overlapping) interests in travel literature, the cultures of slavery and abolitionism, and representations of Haiti.
Part I: The Voyage
‘Throw Him Overboard’
The Making of a Fugitive
‘Put Them in Irons’
Part II: Dark, Polluted Gold
Electric Speed
That Ticklish Possession
The Free Church Responds
The Price of Freedom
The Genealogy of Money
Gilded Cages
Part III: Douglass, Scott and Burns
‘One of Scotland’s Many Famous Names’
A Wild Proposition
New Relations and Duties
A Visit to Ayr
The Coward Slave and the Poor Negro Driver
Crooked Paths
The Sons and Daughters of Old Scotia
Part IV: Measuring Heads, Reading Faces
Breakfast with Combe
The Physiological Century
Travelling Phrenologically
A Glut of Ethiopians
Douglass on Stage
The Suit and the Engraving
Part V: The Voyage Home
A Disconnected Farewell
Cabin 72
Never Again
Part VI: The Affinity Scot
Recitals of Blood
Choosing Ancestors
Remembering Douglass
Out of My Place
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.09.2020 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 31 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 568 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Briefe / Präsentation / Rhetorik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-4426-1 / 1474444261 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-4426-2 / 9781474444262 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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