Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland, 1845-1895

Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland, 1845-1895
Author: Hannah-Rose Murray
Publisher: EUP
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-01-25
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: 9781399511100

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.

'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass

'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass
Author: Laurence Fenton
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2018-02-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1445670208

A vivid and compelling account of the famous escaped slave Frederick Douglass’s tour of Britain and Ireland, 1845-7

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglas

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglas
Author: Frederick Douglass
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2013-02-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1625586272

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass' third autobiography. In it he was able to go into greater detail about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery, as he and his family were no longer in any danger from the reception of his work. It is also the only of Douglass' autobiographies to discuss his life during and after the Civil War, including his encounters with American Presidents such as Lincoln, Grant, and Garfield.

Frederick Douglass in Context

Frederick Douglass in Context
Author: Michaël Roy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 753
Release: 2021-07-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108803040

Frederick Douglass in Context provides an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Frederick Douglass, the nineteenth-century's leading black activist and one of the most celebrated American writers. An international team of scholars sheds new light on the environments and communities that shaped Douglass's career. The book challenges the myth of Douglass as a heroic individualist who towered over family, friends, and colleagues, and reveals instead a man who relied on others and drew strength from a variety of personal and professional relations and networks. This volume offers both a comprehensive representation of Douglass and a series of concentrated studies of specific aspects of his work. It will be a key resource for students, scholars, teachers, and general readers interested in Douglass and his tireless fight for freedom, justice, and equality for all.

Frederick Douglass in Ireland

Frederick Douglass in Ireland
Author: Laurence Fenton
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2014-03-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1848898428

'When we strove to blot out the stain of slavery and advance the rights of man,' President Obama declared in Dublin in 2011, 'we found common cause with your struggle against oppression. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave and our great abolitionist, forged an unlikely friendship right here in Dublin with your great liberator, Daniel O'Connell.' Frederick Douglass arrived in Ireland in the summer of 1845, the start of a two-year lecture tour of Britain and Ireland to champion freedom from slavery. He had been advised to leave America after the publication of his incendiary attack on slavery, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Douglass spent four transformative months in Ireland, filling halls with eloquent denunciations of slavery and causing controversy with graphic descriptions of slaves being tortured. He also shared a stage with Daniel O'Connell and took the pledge from the 'apostle of temperance' Fr Mathew. Douglass delighted in the openness with which he was received, but was shocked at the poverty he encountered. This compelling account of the celebrated escaped slave's tour of Ireland combines a unique insight into the formative years of one of the great figures of nineteenth-century America with a vivid portrait of a country on the brink of famine.

The Frederick Douglass Papers

The Frederick Douglass Papers
Author: Frederick Douglass
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 723
Release: 2009-12-08
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0300135602

This volume of The Frederick Douglass Papers represents the first of a four-volume series of the selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer. Douglass’s correspondence was richly varied, from relatively obscure slaveholders and fugitive slaves to poets and politicians, including Horace Greeley, William H. Seward, Susan B. Anthony, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The letters acquaint us with Douglass’s many roles—politician, abolitionist, diplomat, runaway slave, women’s rights advocate, and family man—and include many previously unpublished letters between Douglass and members of his family. Douglass stood at the epicenter of the political, social, intellectual, and cultural issues of antebellum America. This collection of Douglass’s early correspondence illuminates not only his growth as an activist and writer, but the larger world of the times and the abolition movement as well.

Frederick Douglass and Ireland

Frederick Douglass and Ireland
Author: Christine Kinealy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2018-06-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429998740

Frederick Douglass spent four months in Ireland at the end of 1845 that proved to be, in his own words, ‘transformative’. He reported that for the first time in his life he felt like a man, and not a chattel. Whilst in residence, he became a spokesperson for the abolition movement, but by the time he left the country in early January 1846, he believed that the cause of the slave was the cause of the oppressed everywhere. This book adds new insight into Frederick Douglass and his time in Ireland. Contemporary newspaper accounts of the lectures that Douglass gave during his tour of Ireland (in Dublin, Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Limerick, and Belfast) have been located and transcribed. The speeches are annotated and accompanied by letters written by Douglass during his stay. In this way, for the first time, we hear Douglass in his own words.

Frederick Douglass on Slavery and the Civil War

Frederick Douglass on Slavery and the Civil War
Author: Frederick Douglass
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2003-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0486431711

Selections of speeches and writings from the great abolitionist and statesman, focusing on the slave trade, the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, suffrage for African-Americans, Southern reconstruction, and other vital issues.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Author: Frederick Douglass
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2024-08-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0486853306

This hardcover edition from the Dover Bookshelf series beautifully encapsulates Frederick Douglass's influential role in history. From slave to renowned abolitionist, Douglass’s autobiography is presented with stunning design elements, offering an affordable and thoughtful keepsake or gift.