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Author Jeffrey, Julie Roy, author.

Title Abolitionists remember : antislavery autobiographies & the unfinished work of emancipation / Julie Roy Jeffrey
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 337 pages) : illustrations
Series HeinOnline slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law
HeinOnline UNC Press law publications
Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law
UNC Press law publications
Contents The dissolution of the antislavery societies -- The first recollections -- Fugitives as part of abolitionist history -- Reunions -- "Nigger thieves" : whites and the Underground Railroad -- Defending the past : the 1880s -- The remembrance is like a dream : reminiscences of the 1890s -- Afterword
Summary 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 slavery and to advocate equal rights for African Americans in an era of growing racism, Jim Crow, and the Ku Klux Klan. --from publisher description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-323) and index
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Subject 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
Autobiographies as Topic
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
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140219
Subject United States
USA
Genre/Form Electronic books
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographie.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007045616
ISBN 9780807837283
0807837288
9781469602271
146960227X