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Abolitionists remember : antislavery autobiographies & the unfinished work of emancipation / Julie Roy Jeffrey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jeffrey, Julie Roy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abolitionists--United States--Biography.
- Abolitionists.
- African American abolitionists--Biography.
- African American abolitionists.
- Fugitive slaves--United States--Biography.
- Fugitive slaves.
- Autobiography.
- Autobiography--African American authors.
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century.
- African Americans.
- Memory--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Memory.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Abolitionists Remember, Julie Roy Jeffrey illuminates a second, little-noted antislavery struggle as abolitionists in the postwar period attempted to counter the nation's growing inclination to forget why the war was fought, what slavery was really like, and why the abolitionist cause was so important. In the rush to mend fences after the Civil War, the memory of the past faded and turned romantic--slaves became quaint, owners kindly, and the war itself a noble struggle for the Union. Jeffrey examines the autobiographical writings of former abolitionists such as Laura Havilan
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-323) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-9313-318-9
- 979-88-908829-9-8
- 1-4696-0227-X
- 0-8078-3728-8
- OCLC:
- 606149985
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