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1 online resource (346 p.) |
| Series |
European Perspectives on the United States Ser |
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European Perspectives on the United States Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Mapping the Field -- 1 Abolitionist Literature Matters -- 2 Transnational American Antislavery Literature -- 3 Abolitionist Cosmopolitanism -- 3 Friends of Freedom: Female Editorship and Transatlantic Communities of Affection -- 1 Abolitionist Print Culture and Gift-Giving -- 2 The Gift Book as Chronicle of Transatlantic Affective Communities -- 3 Fundraising for the Cause: The Annual Boston Antislavery Fair -- 4 Gendered Global Geographies of American Antislavery Literature in The Liberty Bell |
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1 Haiti: Edmund Quincy's "Two Nights in St. Domingo" (1843) -- 2 Egypt: Maria Lowell's "Africa" (1849) -- 3 The United States: Elizabeth Barret Browning's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" (1848) -- 5 Travelling beyond the Slave Narrative: African American Women's Autobiography -- 1 Revisiting the Slave Narrative: Discourses of Travel in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) -- 2 Reports From Russia and Jamaica: Nancy Prince's Narrative of the Life and Times of Mrs. Nancy Prince (1850) -- Interlude: Nancy Prince's Travel Account The West Indies (1841) |
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3 Reversing Slave Itineraries: Eliza Potter's A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life (1859) -- 6 Travelling Letters of Antislavery: African American Women's Epistolary Writing -- 1 Sarah Parker Remond's Epistolary Writing on Black Freedom of Movement -- 2 Harriet Jacobs's First Public Letter (1853) and Women's Transatlantic Antislavery Epistolary Battles -- 7 Antislavery, Immigration, and German American Women's Literature -- 1 Alexander von Humboldt, Carl Schutz' "True Americanism" (1859), and German American Abolitionist Self-Fashioning |
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2 German Antislavery Sentiments and the Cult of German Womanhood in America: Talvj's The Exiles (1852) -- 3 German American Utopian Communities: Mathilde Franziska Anneke's "Uhland in Texas" (1866) -- 4 Coda: Ottilie Assing's Writings on Frederick Douglass -- 8 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004521100 |
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9004521100 |
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