Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846: Living an Antislavery Life

ISBN-13: 9781474444262 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 376 str.

Alasdair Pettinger

Opis

This book shows that addressing crowded halls from Ayr to Aberdeen, Frederick Douglass gained the confidence, mastered the skills and fashioned the distinctive voice that transformed him as a campaigner.

Spis treści

List of Figures; Part I: The Voyage; 1. ‘Throw Him Overboard’; 2. The Making of a Fugitive; 3. ‘Put Them in Irons’; Part II: Dark, Polluted Gold; 4. Electric Speed; 5. That Ticklish Possession; 6. The Free Church Responds; 7. The Price of Freedom; 8. The Genealogy of Money; 9. Gilded Cages; Part III: Douglass, Scott and Burns; 10. ‘One of Scotland’s Many Famous Names’; 11. A Wild Proposition; 12. New Relations and Duties; 13. A Visit to Ayr; 14. The Coward Slave and the Poor Negro Driver; 15. Crooked Paths; 16.The Sons and Daughters of Old Scotia; Part IV: Measuring Heads, Reading Faces; 17. Breakfast with Combe; 18. The Physiological Century; 19. Travelling Phrenologically; 20. A Glut of Ethiopians; 21. Douglass on Stage; 22. The Suit and the Engraving; Part V: The Voyage Home; 23. A Disconnected Farewell; 24. Cabin 72; 25. Never Again; Part VI: The Affinity Scot; 26. Recitals of Blood; 27. Choosing Ancestors; 28. Remembering Douglass; 29. Out of My Place; Acknowledgements; Index.