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Author:

Ball, Erica.

Title:

To live an antislavery life : personal politics and the antebellum Black middle class / Erica L. Ball.

Publisher:

University of Georgia Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xv, 175 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Free African Americans--History--19th century.
Free African Americans--Social conditions--19th century.
Free African Americans--History--History--19th century.
Citizenship--United States--History--19th century.
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
United States--History--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

African American advice literature and Black middle-class self-fashioning -- Slave narratives and the Black self-made man -- Antislavery discourse and the African American family -- Domestic literature and the antislavery household -- Transnationalism, revolution, and the Anglo-African magazine on the eve of the Civil War.

Series:

Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900

ISBN:

0820343501 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820343501 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0820329762 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780820329765 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)778990793

LCCN:

2012006351

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)