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'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass

- An American Slave in Victorian Britain
Af: Laurence Fenton Engelsk Paperback

'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass

- An American Slave in Victorian Britain
Af: Laurence Fenton Engelsk Paperback
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In the summer of 1845, Frederick Douglass, the young runaway slave catapulted to fame by his incendiary autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, arrived in Liverpool for the start of a near-two-year tour of Britain and Ireland he always called one of the most transformative periods of his life. Laurence Fenton draws on a wide array of sources from both sides of the Atlantic and combines a unique insight into the early years of one of the great figures of the nineteenth-century world with rich profiles of the enormous personalities at the heart of the transatlantic anti-slavery movement. This vivid portrait of life in Victorian Britain is the first to fully explore the ‘liberating sojourn’ that ended with Douglass gaining his freedom – paid for by British supporters – before returning to America as a celebrity and icon of international standing. It also follows his later life, through the American Civil War and afterwards.Douglass has been described as ‘the most influential African American of the nineteenth century’. He spoke and wrote on behalf of a variety of reform causes: women’s rights, temperance, peace, land reform, free public education and the abolition of capital punishment. But he devoted most of his time, immense talent and boundless energy to ending slavery. On 14 April 1876, Douglass would deliver the keynote speech at the unveiling of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington’s Lincoln Park.
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In the summer of 1845, Frederick Douglass, the young runaway slave catapulted to fame by his incendiary autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, arrived in Liverpool for the start of a near-two-year tour of Britain and Ireland he always called one of the most transformative periods of his life. Laurence Fenton draws on a wide array of sources from both sides of the Atlantic and combines a unique insight into the early years of one of the great figures of the nineteenth-century world with rich profiles of the enormous personalities at the heart of the transatlantic anti-slavery movement. This vivid portrait of life in Victorian Britain is the first to fully explore the ‘liberating sojourn’ that ended with Douglass gaining his freedom – paid for by British supporters – before returning to America as a celebrity and icon of international standing. It also follows his later life, through the American Civil War and afterwards.Douglass has been described as ‘the most influential African American of the nineteenth century’. He spoke and wrote on behalf of a variety of reform causes: women’s rights, temperance, peace, land reform, free public education and the abolition of capital punishment. But he devoted most of his time, immense talent and boundless energy to ending slavery. On 14 April 1876, Douglass would deliver the keynote speech at the unveiling of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington’s Lincoln Park.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN-13: 9781398125438
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1398125431
Kategori: Storbritannien
Udg. Dato: 15 mar 2025
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 129mm
Højde: 197mm
Forlag: Amberley Publishing
Oplagsdato: 15 mar 2025
Forfatter(e): Laurence Fenton
Forfatter(e) Laurence Fenton

Kategori Storbritannien

ISBN-13 9781398125438

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 288

Udgave

Længde 22mm

Bredde 129mm

Højde 197mm

Udg. Dato 15 mar 2025

Oplagsdato 15 mar 2025

Forlag Amberley Publishing