Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland, 1845-1895

Hannah-Rose Murray, John R. McKivigan (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

448 Seiten

2021
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-6041-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Hannah-Rose Murray is a Teaching Fellow in US History at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Her first book, Advocates of Freedom: African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles, was published in 2020. Her accompanying website (www.frederickdouglassinbritain.com) maps thousands of Black activist speaking locations in Britain and Ireland and is the basis for her community and heritage work. 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

Note on the TextAcknowledgementsTimelineMap of Frederick Douglass’s Speaking LocationsList of Frederick Douglass’s Speaking Locations

Part I: "To Tell His Own Story": Frederick Douglass and the British IslesPart II: "Men Naturally Love Liberty"Part III: "A Sunbeam into the Darknesses of the Hour": The Responses to Great BritainPart IV: "A Comrade in the Fight:" British Responses to Frederick Douglass

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Erscheinungsdatum	08.04.2021
Zusatzinfo	9 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Gewicht	910 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
ISBN-10	1-4744-6041-0 / 1474460410
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-6041-5 / 9781474460415
Zustand	Neuware