Liberating sojourn : Frederick Douglass & transatlantic reform / edited by Alan J. Rice & Martin Crawford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rice, Alan J., 1960-

Crawford, Martin, 1948-

David Bruce Centre for American Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895--Travel--Great Britain.

Douglass, Frederick.

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.

Travel.

Social problems.

History.

African American abolitionists.

Great Britain.

African American abolitionists--Biography.

African American abolitionists--Great Britain--Biography.

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895--Relations with the British.

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895--Political and social views.

Political and social views.

Great Britain--Race relations.

Race relations.

Social problems--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1999]

Summary:

Still in his twenties but already famous for his fiery orations and controversial autobiography, black abolitionist Frederick Douglass traveled to Great Britain in 1845 on an eighteen-month lecture and fund-raising tour. This book examines how that visit affected transatlantic reform movements and Douglass's own thinking. The first book dedicated specifically to the trip, it features the work of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic-including Douglass biographer William S. McFeely and abolitionist scholar R. J. M. Blackett-who use Douglass's visit to reexamine aspects of his life and times. The contributors reveal the visit's significance to an understanding of transatlantic gender relations, religion, radicalism, and popular views of African Americans in Britain and also examine such topics as Douglass's attitudes toward the Irish and his campaign against the Free Church of Scotland for accepting money from the U.S. South. Together, these essays show that Douglass's journey was a personal and political triumph and a key event in his development, leaving him better prepared to set the strategies and ideologies of the abolitionist movement.

Contents:

Triumphant Exile: Frederick Douglass in Britain, 1845-1847 / Alan J. Rice, Martin Crawford 1

Part 1 Douglass's Moral Legacy

Visible Man: Frederick Douglass for the 1990s / William S. McFeely 15

Part 2 Douglass and Religion

Send Back the Money: Douglass and the Free Church of Scotland / Alasdair Pettinger 31

British Unitarian Abolitionists, Frederick Douglass, and Racial Equality / David Turley 56

Part 3 Douglass and Gender

Frederick Douglass and the Gender Politics of Reform / Cynthia S. Hamilton 73

Engendered in the South: Blood and Irony in Douglass and Jacobs / Anne Goodwyn Jones 93

Part 4 Douglass, Race, and Ethnicity

The Slavery of Romanism: The Casting Out of the Irish in the Work of Frederick Douglass / Richard Hardack 115

Competing Representations: Douglass, the Ethiopian Serenaders, and Ethnic Exhibition in London / Sarah Meer 141

Part 5 Douglass and Transatlantic Reform

Frederick Douglass and the Chartists / Richard Bradbury 169

Cracks in the Antislavery Wall: Frederick Douglass's Second Visit to England (1859-1860) and the Coming of the Civil War / R. J. M. Blackett 187.

Notes:

Papers originally presented at a colloquium held under the auspices of the David Bruce Centre for American Studies at Keele University in Sept. 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0820321028

082032129X

OCLC:

41273003