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Author:

Jeffrey, Julie Roy.

Title:

Abolitionists remember : antislavery autobiographies & the unfinished work of emancipation / Julie Roy Jeffrey.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xii, 337 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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--History--History--19th century.
Memory--History--United States--History--19th century.
United States--Causes.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-323) and index.

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

ISBN:

0807858854 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807858851 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807832081 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807832080 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)181142301

LCCN:

2007045616

Locations:

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

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)