Abolitionists remember : antislavery autobiographies & the unfinished work of emancipation

Abolitionists remember : antislavery autobiographies & the unfinished work of emancipation / Julie Roy Jeffrey.

Jeffrey examines the autobiographical writings of former abolitionists such as Laura Haviland, Frederick Douglass, Parker Pillsbury, and Samuel J. May, revealing that they wrote not only to counter the popular image of themselves as fanatics, but also to remind readers of the harsh reality of slaver...

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Main Author: Jeffrey, Julie Roy (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
Series:Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law.
UNC Press law publications.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Abolitionists > United States > Biography.
African American abolitionists > Biography.
Fugitive slaves > United States > Biography.
Autobiography.
Autobiography > African American authors.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 19th century.
Memory > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
autobiography (genre)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Abolitionists
African American abolitionists
African Americans > Civil rights
Antislavery movements
Autobiography
Autobiography > African American authors
Fugitive slaves
Memory > Social aspects
Enslaved persons > Emancipation
War > Causes
Abolitionismus
Flucht
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Causes.
United States
USA
Electronic books.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Autobiographies.
Biographie.
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