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Giant's Causeway : Frederick Douglass's Irish odyssey and the making of an American visionary / Tom Chaffin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chaffin, Tom, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American abolitionists--Biography.
- African American abolitionists.
- African American orators--Biography.
- African American orators.
- Ireland--Description and travel.
- Ireland.
- Ireland--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895--Travel--Ireland.
- Douglass, Frederick.
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895--Relations with Irish.
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895--Political and social views.
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895--Oratory.
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.
- Garrison, William Lloyd.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (362 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Along the way, it chronicles Douglass's transformation from activist foot soldier to moral visionary.
- Contents:
- Preface: Great Brunswick Street
- Chronology
- Prologue: Commercial Wharf
- Part I. Republican slavery to monarchial freedom, Atlantic world, August 1845
- "They need no credentials"
- RMS Cambria
- "Throw him overboard"
- Part III. Ireland, August 1845-January 1846
- Dublin
- Friend Webb
- A storm over Drayton
- The Liberator
- Cork
- The apostle of temperance
- Limerick
- Belfast
- "The half has not been told"
- Part III. Britain, January 1846-April 1847
- Britain
- "Lonely pilgrimage"
- RMS Cambria redux
- "This piteous storm"
- America, 1847-1865
- "I am now buying type"
- "Mr. Editor, if you please"
- "Ourselves alone"
- "Self-made man"
- "Abolition war"
- Part V. Reckonings, Atlantic world and beyond, 1865-1895
- "Traced like a wounded man, by the blood"
- Denouements
- Janus days
- "A height above the work and the world"
- A note on sources.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813936116
- 081393611X
- OCLC:
- 896826742
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