Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies & the Unfinished Work of Emancipation

Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies & the Unfinished Work of Emancipation
ISBN-10
0807832081
ISBN-13
9780807832080
Category
History
Pages
337
Language
English
Published
2008
Publisher
UNC Press Books
Author
Julie Roy Jeffrey

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

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