Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland, 1845-1895 / edited by Hannah-Rose Murray and John R. McKivigan.
"The first and only anthology dedicated to Douglass's three journeys to Britain, covering oratory, print and visual culture. This critical edition documents Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture. With an unprecedented and comprehen...
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Full Text (via ProQuest) |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2021.
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| Summary: | "The first and only anthology dedicated to Douglass's three journeys to Britain, covering oratory, print and visual culture. 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."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxiii, 414 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781474460422 1474460429 9781474460439 1474460437 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Dr. Hannah-Rose Murray received a Ph.D. from the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham and has been a postdoctoral fellow there since April 2018. Her research focuses on African American transatlantic journeys to Britain between the 1830s and the 1890s. 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. |