Download or read book An Abolitionist Abroad written by Sirpa Salenius and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable life of a nineteenth-century African American expatriate

Download or read book Abolitionists Abroad written by Lamin Sanneh and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1792, nearly 1,200 freed American slaves crossed the Atlantic and established themselves in Freetown, West Africa, a community dedicated to anti-slavery and opposed to the African chieftain hierarchy that was tied to slavery. Thus began an unprecedented movement with critical long-term effects on the evolution of social, religious, and political institutions in modern Africa. Lamin Sanneh's engrossing book narrates the story of freed slaves who led efforts to abolish the slave trade by attacking its base operation: the capture and sale of people by African chiefs. Sanneh's protagonists set out to establish in West Africa colonies founded on equal rights and opportunity for personal enterprise, communities that would be havens for ex-slaves and an example to the rest of Africa. Among the most striking of these leaders is the Nigerian Samuel Ajayi Crowther, a recaptured slave who joined a colony in Sierra Leone and subsequently established satellite communities in Nigeria. The ex-slave repatriates brought with them an evangelical Christianity that encouraged individual spirituality--a revolutionary vision in a land where European missionaries had long assumed they could Christianize the whole society by converting chiefs and rulers. Tracking this potent African American anti-slavery and democratizing movement through the nineteenth century, Lamin Sanneh draws a clear picture of the religious grounding of its conflict with the traditional chieftain authorities. His study recounts a crucial development in the history of West Africa.

Download or read book The Abolitionist Movement Abroad and the Ending of Caribbean Slavery written by P. C. Emmer and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book We Are the Revolutionists written by Mischa Honeck and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title Widely remembered as a time of heated debate over the westward expansion of slavery, the 1850s in the United States was also a period of mass immigration. As the sectional conflict escalated, discontented Europeans came in record numbers, further dividing the young republic over issues of race, nationality, and citizenship. The arrival of German-speaking “Forty-Eighters,” refugees of the failed European revolutions of 1848–49, fueled apprehensions about the nation’s future. Reaching America did not end the foreign revolutionaries’ pursuit of freedom; it merely transplanted it. In We Are the Revolutionists, Mischa Honeck offers a fresh appraisal of these exiled democrats by probing their relationship to another group of beleaguered agitators: America’s abolitionists. Honeck details how individuals from both camps joined forces in the long, dangerous battle to overthrow slavery. In Texas and in cities like Milwaukee, Cincinnati, and Boston this cooperation helped them find new sources of belonging in an Atlantic world unsettled by massive migration and revolutionary unrest. Employing previously untapped sources to write the experience of radical German émigrés into the abolitionist struggle, Honeck elucidates how these interethnic encounters affected conversations over slavery and emancipation in the United States and abroad. Forty-Eighters and abolitionists, Honeck argues, made creative use not only of their partnerships but also of their disagreements to redefine notions of freedom, equality, and humanity in a transatlantic age of racial construction and nation making.

Download or read book The American Fugitive in Europe written by William Wells Brown and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown's insightful and engaging travelogue chronicles his experiences as an escaped slave traveling through Europe in the mid-19th century. With vivid descriptions of people and places, this book offers a unique perspective on the complex issues of race, slavery, and freedom that shaped America in the years leading up to the Civil War. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book The Travels of William Wells Brown Including The Narrative of William Wells Brown a Fugitive Slave and the American Fugitive in Europe Sketches of Places and People Abroad written by William Wells Brown and published by Markus Wiener Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the remarkable story of two trips by a fugitive slave: his dramatic andesperate journey up the Mississippi to the North into freedom, and his glorious voyage as an eloquent ambassador of the abolitionists to Europe. Includes two books in one. Illustrated.

Download or read book Black History Walks written by WARNER and published by Jacaranda. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of guided tours throughout London Black History Walks invites the reader to see their surroundings with new eyes.

Download or read book The American Fugitive in Europe written by William Wells Brown and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1855 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Free at Last written by Arna Bontemps and published by Dodd Mead. This book was released on 1971 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Douglass played one of the most extraordinary roles in American history. Born a slave, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, whose counsel was sought by the President of his country. He remembered his mother only when she slipped at night into the slave children's hut to hold him close in her arms before being summoned to the fields. In his teens, he worked as a slave calking ships beside free men. At twenty-one, he escaped the cruelties of slavery by an evasive flight to Philadelphia, disguised as a sailor. He found sanctuary in New Bedford, Massachusetts, with his new bride, the plain, dark Anna who had the glamor of freedom, while he must be haunted through the years by the threat of capture and return to slavery. Douglass's eloquent description of life as a slave soon became the inspiration of abolitonist meetings organized by such white leaders as William Lloyd Garrison and William A. White, who would rhetorically ask the spellbound audiences, "Is this a Man or a Thing?" at rallies similar to those held on campuses today. With his autobiography a best seller at home and abroad, Douglass toured the anti-slavery meetings of the British Isles where for the first time he was accorded the respect due an honored white man. It was two English women who arranged to purchase of his freedom and another who disrupted the tranquility of his home. Publisher of The North Star and active underground agent, he became implicated in John Brown's plot that aborted at Harpers Ferry, forcing Douglass to flee abroad. On is return he pursued his campaign for the emancipation of his race. President Lincoln invited him to his inaugural reception and called him "my friend," Johnson made him Marshal of the District of Columbia, and Harrison appointed him Minister to Haiti. He bought Robert E. Lee's home and on the death of the long-suffering Anna he took a white bride to the consternation of his friends. Arna Bontemps has drawn a vivid portrait of this unique champion of the freedom of his people.

Download or read book An Abolitionist s Handbook written by Patrisse Cullors and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Co-Founder of the #BlackLivesMatter, a bold, innovative, and humanistic approach to being a modern-day abolitionist In An Abolitionist’s Handbook, New York Times bestselling author, artist, and activist Patrisse Cullors charts a framework for how everyday artists, activists, and organizers can effectively fight for an abolitionist present and future. Filled with relatable pedagogy on the history of abolition, a reimagining of what reparations look like for Black lives, and real-life anecdotes from Cullors, An Abolitionist’s Handbook asks us to lead with love, fierce compassion, and precision. Readers will learn the 12 steps to change yourself and the world. An Abolitionist’s Handbook is for those who are looking to reimagine a world where communities are treated with dignity, care and respect. It gives us permission to move away from cancel culture and into visioning change and healing.

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Download or read book Abolition Fanaticism in New York written by Frederick Douglass and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2023-01-18 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Abolition Fanaticism in New York’ is a speech written by Douglass and delivered in 1847. Proving that the pen can be mightier than the sword, Douglass deftly used his linguistic abilities to create a rousing appeal to the English to shame America into abolishing slavery. Witty, moving, and always intelligent, this is a superb read for anyone with an interest in one of America’s most unsung heroes. Frederick Douglass (1818-1995) was an American abolitionist and author. Born into slavery in Maryland, he was of African, European, and Native American descent. He was separated from his mother at a young age and lived with his grandmother until he was moved to another plantation. Frederick was taught his alphabet by the wife of one of his owners, a knowledge he passed on to other slaves. In 1838, he successfully escaped slavery by jumping on a north-bound train. After less than 24 hours, he was in New York and free. The same year, he married the woman that had inspired his run for freedom and started working actively as a social reformer, orator, statesman, and women’s rights defender. He remains most known today for his 1845 autobiography "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave".

Download or read book The American Fugitive in Europe Sketches of Places and People Abroad written by W. M. Wells Brown and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2005-03-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHILE I feel conscious that most of the contents of those Letters will be interesting chiefly to American readers, yet I may indulge the hope that the fact of their being the first production of a Fugitive Slave as a history of travels may carry with them novelty enough to secure for them, to some extent, the attention of the reading public of Great Britain. Most of the letters were written for the private perusal of a few personal friends in America; some were contributed to Fredrick Douglass' Paper, a journal published in the United States. In a printed circular sent some weeks since to some of my friends, asking subscriptions to this volume, I stated the reasons for its publication: these need not be repeated here. To those who so promptly and kindly responded to that appeal, I tender my most sincere thanks. It is with no little diffidence that I lay these letters before the public; for I am not blind to the fact that they must contain many errors; and to those who shall find fault with them on that account, it may not be too much for me to ask them kindly to remember that the author was a slave in one of the Southern States of America, until he had attained the age of twenty years; and that the education he has acquired was by his own exertions, he never having had a day's schooling in his life.

Download or read book Abolitionist Places written by Martha Schoolman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From David Brion Davis's The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution to Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic, some of the most influential conceptualizations of the Atlantic World have taken the movements of individuals and transnational organizations working to advocate the abolition of slavery as their material basis. This unique, interdisciplinary collection of essays provides diverse new approaches to examining the abolitionist Atlantic. With contributions from an international roster of historians, literary scholars, and specialists in the history of art, this book provides case studies in the connections between abolitionism and material spatial practice in literature, theory, history and memory. This volume covers a wide range of topics and themes, including the circum-Atlantic itineraries of abolitionist artists and activists; precise locations such as Paris and Chatham, Ontario where abolitionists congregated to speculate over the future of, and hatch emigration plans to, sites in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean; and the reimagining of abolitionist places in twentieth and twenty-first century literature and public art. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.

Download or read book Women s Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation written by Kathryn Kish Sklar and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching a wide range of transnational topics, the editors ask how conceptions of slavery & gendered society differed in the United States, France, Germany, & Britain.

Download or read book This Vast Southern Empire written by Matthew Karp and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the John H. Dunning Prize, American Historical Association Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Winner of the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Winner of the North Jersey Civil War Round Table Book Award Finalist for the Harriet Tubman Prize, Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery When the United States emerged as a world power in the years before the Civil War, the men who presided over the nation’s triumphant territorial and economic expansion were largely southern slaveholders. As presidents, cabinet officers, and diplomats, slaveholding leaders controlled the main levers of foreign policy inside an increasingly powerful American state. This Vast Southern Empire explores the international vision and strategic operations of these southerners at the commanding heights of American politics. “At the close of the Civil War, more than Southern independence and the bones of the dead lay amid the smoking ruins of the Confederacy. Also lost was the memory of the prewar decades, when Southern politicians and pro-slavery ambitions shaped the foreign policy of the United States in order to protect slavery at home and advance its interests abroad. With This Vast Southern Empire, Matthew Karp recovers that forgotten history and presents it in fascinating and often surprising detail.” —Fergus Bordewich, Wall Street Journal “Matthew Karp’s illuminating book This Vast Southern Empire shows that the South was interested not only in gaining new slave territory but also in promoting slavery throughout the Western Hemisphere.” —David S. Reynolds, New York Review of Books

Download or read book Abolition Fanaticism in New York written by Frederick Douglass and published by Namaskar Book. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the impassioned speech of a runaway slave as Frederick Douglass addresses an Abolition Meeting in New York, May 11, 1847. Embark on a powerful journey through history with Frederick Douglass's gripping narrative, "Abolition Fanaticism in New York." Walk in the footsteps of a runaway slave as he addresses an abolition meeting in New York, May 11, 1847, sharing a firsthand account that challenges the very foundations of fanaticism and oppression. As Douglass's words echo across time, experience the urgency of his message and the courage it took to stand against the prevailing tides of injustice. The narrative unfolds with an intensity that captivates, leaving you to ponder the echoes of the past reverberating in the present. But here's the question that lingers in the air: How far have we truly come in the pursuit of equality and justice? Could Douglass's impassioned plea for freedom find echoes in the challenges we face today? Delve into the rich tapestry of Douglass's narrative, where each word carries the weight of resilience and the fight for human dignity. This edition brings history to life, inviting you to confront the stark realities of the past and draw parallels to the contemporary struggles we grapple with. Are you ready to stand witness to the indomitable spirit that defied oppression? Step into history with "Abolition Fanaticism in New York" and discover a narrative that remains as relevant as ever. Immerse yourself in short, impactful paragraphs that bridge the gap between the past and the present. Douglass's words, like a beacon, guide you through the tumultuous waters of history, inspiring reflection on the challenges that persist. Here's your opportunity to own a piece of emancipatory history. Acquire "Abolition Fanaticism in New York" now, and let Douglass's eloquence resonate as a timeless call for justice and freedom.