Abolitionists remember
Subtitle: antislavery autobiographies & the unfinished work of emancipation
By: Julie Roy Jeffrey.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780807832080; 9780807858851
Subjects: Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography; African American abolitionists -- Biography; Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography; Autobiography; Autobiography -- African American authors; Slaves -- 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; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-323) and index.
Table of contents: title: The dissolution of the antislavery societies; title: The first recollections; title: Fugitives as part of abolitionist history; title: Reunions; title: "Nigger thieves" : whites and the Underground Railroad; title: Defending the past : the 1880s; title: The remembrance is like a dream : reminiscences of the 1890s; title: Afterword.