Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland, 1845-1895

This critical edition documents Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture. With an unprecedented and comprehensive 60,000-word introduction that places the speeches, letters, poetry and images printed here into context, the sources provide extraordinary insight into the myriad performative techniques Douglass used to win support for the causes of emancipation and human rights.

Editors examine how Douglass employed various media - letters, speeches, interviews and his autobiographies - to convince the transatlantic public not only that his works were worth reading and his voice worth hearing, but also that the fight against racism would continue after his death.

ISBN-13: 9781474460415

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Publication Date: 04-13-2021

Pages: 448

Product Dimensions: 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.00d

University of Edinburgh

Hannah-Rose Murray is an Early Career Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on recovering and amplifying formerly enslaved African American testimony in the British Isles, including forgotten slave narratives, oratory and visual performance, and her digital mapping project (www.frederickdouglassinbritain.com) highlights their experiences and lectures in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. She has organized numerous community events including talks, performances, podcasts, plays and exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic, and conducts both in-person and virtual walking tours of Black abolitionist sites in London. Her first book, Advocates of Freedom: African American Abolitionism in the British Isles was published in September 2020 with Cambridge University Press.

John Kaufman-McKivigan is the Mary O'Brien Gibson Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis as well as the Editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers. He is author of numerous books and scholarly articles on abolitionism and other aspects of American reform history. He is currently preparing a study of Frederick Douglass' participation in the overlapping movements for radial political, social, and economic change in the early years of Reconstruction