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Author:
Chaffin, Tom, author.
Title:
Giant's Causeway : Frederick Douglass's Irish odyssey and the making of an American visionary / Tom Chaffin.
Publisher:
University of Virginia Press,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xxxiii, 292 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Subject:
Douglass, Frederick,--1818-1895--Travel--Ireland.
Douglass, Frederick,--1818-1895--Relations with Irish.
Douglass, Frederick,--1818-1895--Political and social views.
Douglass, Frederick,--1818-1895--Oratory.
African American abolitionists--Biography.
African American orators--Biography.
Ireland--Description and travel.
Ireland--History--History--19th century.
Garrison, William Lloyd,--1805-1879.
Douglass, Frederick,--1818-1895
Garrison, William Lloyd,--1805-1879
African American abolitionists.
African American orators.
Oratory.
Political and social views.
Race relations.
Relations with Irish.
Travel.
Ireland.
1800 - 1899
Biography.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Preface: Great Brunswick Street -- Chronology -- Prologue: Commercial Wharf -- Part I. Republican slavery to monarchial freedom, Atlantic world, August 1845 -- "They need no credentials" -- RMS Cambria -- "Throw him overboard" -- Part III. Ireland, August 1845-January 1846 -- Dublin -- Friend Webb -- A storm over Drayton -- The Liberator -- Cork -- The apostle of temperance -- Limerick -- Belfast -- "The half has not been told" -- Part III. Britain, January 1846-April 1847 -- Britain -- "Lonely pilgrimage" -- RMS Cambria redux -- "This piteous storm" -- America, 1847-1865 -- "I am now buying type" -- "Mr. Editor, if you please" -- "Ourselves alone" -- "Self-made man" -- "Abolition war" -- Part V. Reckonings, Atlantic world and beyond, 1865-1895 -- "Traced like a wounded man, by the blood" -- Denouements -- Janus days -- "A height above the work and the world" -- A note on sources.
ISBN:
0813936101
9780813936109
OCLC:
(OCoLC)864709605
LCCN:
2013044114
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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