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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The historical span of Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland draws attention to material emerging from Douglass's middle and late as well as his early career, offering the opportunity to engage with British and Irish material generated at his most radical moment-the relationship with John Brown that prompted Douglass's flight to the UK following Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry-and during his most established period as a statesman and federal official. The geographical rationale of the book, its layout, and the extensive contextualization of the material to follow provided in Part 1, make this book particularly useful for undergraduate students of transatlantic history and culture, and for the general reader, while the primary sources will provide a lasting resource for future scholarship in the area. -- Fionnghuala Sweeney, Newcastle University * American Literary History * In this comprehensive volume, Murray and Kaufman-McKivigan provide key documents and brilliant contextual framing that help us to recover the excitement and urgency of Frederick Douglass's visits to Britain and Ireland over a nearly fifty-year period. This is a major contribution to our understanding of the trans-Atlantic Douglass. -- Robert S. Levine, University of Maryland, and author of The Lives of Frederick Douglass
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9 black and white illustrations
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Höhe: 244 mm
Breite: 170 mm
Dicke: 23 mm
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978-1-3995-1110-0 (9781399511100)
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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
Herausgeber*in
Teaching Fellow in US History
Mary O'Brien Gibson Professor of United States HistoryIndiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
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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