Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland, 1845-1895
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- ISBN 9781399511100
- Dimensions: 170 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jan 2023
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The first and only anthology dedicated to Douglass's three journeys to Britain, covering oratory, print and visual culture
The only monograph and anthology to focus on Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture
Provides a monograph-length introduction focusing on Douglass' experiences in the British Isles, from his first visit in 1845, to 1859 and 1886 (the latter two visits have received scant attention from scholars in comparison to his first visit in 1845)
Provides specialist and general audiences with political and cultural insights into Frederick Douglass' transatlantic visits
Presents speeches, letters and poetry in relation to Douglass' visit (including his own testimony) that have never been published before
Examines Douglass' impact on British culture with a section on songs, images and poetry written in response to his lectures
Radically updates Douglass' speaking locations in Britain, which is printed alongside a visual map of these locations
Provides several images new to scholarship (for instance, the ticket to one of Douglass' lectures in Cambridgeshire)
This critical edition documents Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture. With an unprecedented and comprehensive 60,000-word introduction that places the speeches, letters, poetry and images printed here into context, the sources provide extraordinary insight into the myriad performative techniques Douglass used to win support for the causes of emancipation and human rights.
Editors examine how Douglass employed various media letters, speeches, interviews and his autobiographies to convince the transatlantic public not only that his works were worth reading and his voice worth hearing, but also that the fight against racism would continue after his death.
Hannah-Rose Murray is a Teaching Fellow in US History at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Her first book, Advocates of Freedom: African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles, was published in 2020. Her accompanying website (www.frederickdouglassinbritain.com) maps thousands of Black activist speaking locations in Britain and Ireland and is the basis for her community and heritage work. John Kaufman-McKivigan is the Mary O’Brien Gibson Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis as well as the Editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers. He is author of numerous books and scholarly articles on abolitionism and other aspects of American reform history. He is currently preparing a study of Frederick Douglass’ participation in the overlapping movements for radial political, social, and economic change in the early years of Reconstruction
