Abolitionists remember : antislavery autobiographies & the unfinished work of emancipation /

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Jeffrey examines the autobiographical writings of former abolitionists such as Laura Haviland, Frederick Douglass, Parker Pillsbury, and Samuel J. May, revealing that they wrote not only to counter the popular image of themselves as fanatics, but also to remind readers of the harsh reality of slaver...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jeffrey, Julie Roy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
Colección:Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law.
UNC Press law publications.
Temas:
1800-1899
Abolitionists > United States > Biography.
African American abolitionists > Biography.
Fugitive slaves > United States > Biography.
Autobiography.
Autobiography > African American authors.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 19th century.
Memory > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Autobiographies as Topic
Abolitionnistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Abolitionnistes noirs américains > Biographies.
Esclaves fugitifs > États-Unis > Biographies.
Autobiographie.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Noirs américains > Droits > Histoire > 19e siècle.
autobiography (genre)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Abolitionists.
African American abolitionists.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Antislavery movements.
Fugitive slaves.
Memory > Social aspects.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation.
War > Causes.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Causes.
United States.
Autobiography
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The dissolution of the antislavery societies
  • The first recollections
  • Fugitives as part of abolitionist history
  • Reunions
  • "Nigger thieves" : whites and the Underground Railroad
  • Defending the past : the 1880s
  • The remembrance is like a dream : reminiscences of the 1890s
  • Afterword.

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