Advocates of Freedom: African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles

ISBN-13: 9781108487511 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 378 str.

Hannah-Rose Murray

Opis

Focusing on unexplored testimony, this book highlights numerous ways in which African Americans challenged slavery on British soil. Written with a wide audience in mind, it appeals to those who have an interest in American slavery and abolition, black activism, and the transatlantic journeys of African Americans to Britain.

Recenzje

'… a marvelous recovery of the panoply of events, networks, strategies, performances, and tropes that abolitionists employed to convince and capture audiences abroad. In a wealth of detail drawn from local newspapers, Murray examines and deconstructs the 'performative strategies' of a variety of Black abolitionists - performances, she notes, that were created and managed out of the experience of slavery engaging with the expectations and preconceptions of white European audiences.' J. A. Jaffe, CHOICE

Spis treści

Introduction: 'To Tell The Truth': African American activism in the British Isles 1835–1895; 1. 'It Is Time For The Slaves to Speak': Moses Roper, white networks and 'Lying Inventions' 1835–1855; 2. 'All the Bloody Paraphernalia of Slavery': Frederick Douglass' performative strategies on the Victorian stage; 3. '[They Have] Not Ceased to Hold My Hand Since': Frederick Douglass, print culture and abolitionist networks; 4. To 'Frighten The Hyena Out Of His Ferocity': black activism in Britain 1850–1860; 5. 'I Would Much Rather Starve In England, A Free Woman, Than Be A Slave': black women and adaptive resistance 1850–1865; 6. 'Have No Fellowship I Pray You, With These Merciless Menstealers': black activism, the Confederacy and scientific racism during the Civil War 1861–1865; 7. 'My Name is Not Tom': Josiah Henson, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and adaptive resistance after the Civil War 1876–1877; 8. 'The Black People's Side Of The Story': Ida B. Wells and the anti-lynching crusade in Britain 1893–1894; 9. 'To Tell the Story of the Slave': the legacy of African American transatlantic resistance.