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Giant's Causeway : Frederick Douglass's Irish odyssey and the making of an American visionary /

Main Author: Chaffin, Tom, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Subjects:
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895 > Travel > Ireland.
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895 > Relations with Irish.
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895 > Political and social views.
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895 > Oratory.
Garrison, William Lloyd, > 1805-1879.
African American abolitionists
African American orators
Ireland > Description and travel.
Ireland > Race relations > 19th century. > History
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10988219
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Great Brunswick Street
  • Chronology
  • Prologue: Commercial Wharf
  • Part I. Republican slavery to monarchial freedom, Atlantic world, August 1845
  • "They need no credentials"
  • RMS Cambria
  • "Throw him overboard"
  • Part III. Ireland, August 1845-January 1846
  • Dublin
  • Friend Webb
  • A storm over Drayton
  • The Liberator
  • Cork
  • The apostle of temperance
  • Limerick
  • Belfast
  • "The half has not been told"
  • Part III. Britain, January 1846-April 1847
  • Britain
  • "Lonely pilgrimage"
  • RMS Cambria redux
  • "This piteous storm"
  • America, 1847-1865
  • "I am now buying type"
  • "Mr. Editor, if you please"
  • "Ourselves alone"
  • "Self-made man"
  • "Abolition war"
  • Part V. Reckonings, Atlantic world and beyond, 1865-1895
  • "Traced like a wounded man, by the blood"
  • Denouements
  • Janus days
  • "A height above the work and the world"
  • A note on sources.

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