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Abolitionists remember antislavery autobiographies & the unfinished work of emancipation /

Main Author: Jeffrey, Julie Roy.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.
Subjects:
Abolitionists > United States
African American abolitionists
Fugitive slaves > United States
Autobiography.
Autobiography > African American authors.
Slaves > Emancipation > United States.
Antislavery movements > History > 19th century. > United States
African Americans > Civil rights > 19th century. > History
Memory > Social aspects > 19th century. > United States > History
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Causes.
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10535714
Table of Contents:
  • The dissolution of the antislavery societies
  • The first recollections
  • Fugitives as part of abolitionist history
  • Reunions
  • "Nigger thieves" : whites and the Underground Railroad
  • Defending the past : the 1880s
  • The remembrance is like a dream : reminiscences of the 1890s
  • Afterword.

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