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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778949303321

Autore

Jeffrey Julie Roy

Titolo

Abolitionists remember : antislavery autobiographies & the unfinished work of emancipation / / Julie Roy Jeffrey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

1-4696-0227-X

0-8078-3728-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Disciplina

326/.8092/2

B

Soggetti

Abolitionists - United States

African American abolitionists

Fugitive slaves - United States

Autobiography

Autobiography - African American authors

Enslaved persons - Emancipation - United States

Antislavery movements - United States - History - 19th century

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 19th century

Memory - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Causes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-323) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

In Abolitionists Remember, Julie Roy Jeffrey illuminates a second, little-noted antislavery struggle as abolitionists in the postwar period attempted to counter the nation's growing inclination to forget why the war was fought, what slavery was really like, and why the abolitionist cause was so important. In the rush to mend fences after the Civil War,



the memory of the past faded and turned romantic--slaves became quaint, owners kindly, and the war itself a noble struggle for the Union. Jeffrey examines the autobiographical writings of former abolitionists such as Laura Havilan