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To live an antislavery life : personal politics and the antebellum Black middle class / Erica L. Ball.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ball, Erica L., 1971-
- Series:
- Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900
- Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Free African Americans--History--19th century.
- Free African Americans.
- Free African Americans--Social conditions--19th century.
- Free African Americans--Attitudes--History--19th century.
- Citizenship--United States--History--19th century.
- Citizenship.
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- United States--Race relations--History--19th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this study of antebellum African American print culture in transnational perspective, Erica L. Ball explores the relationship between antislavery discourse and the emergence of the northern black middle class. Through innovative readings of slave narratives, sermons, fiction, convention proceedings, and the advice literature printed in forums like Freedom's Journal , the North Star , and the Anglo-African Magazine , Ball demonstrates that black figures such as Susan Paul, Frederick Douglass, and Martin Delany consistently urged readers to internalize their political principles and to interp
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: African American Advice Literature and Black Middle-Class Self-Fashioning; CHAPTER TWO: Slave Narratives and the Black Self-Made Man; CHAPTER THREE: Antislavery Discourse and the African American Family; CHAPTER FOUR: Domestic Literature and the Antislavery Household; CHAPTER FIVE: Transnationalism, Revolution, and the Anglo-African Magazine on the Eve of the Civil War; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283733328
- 1283733323
- 9780820344676
- 0820344672
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