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

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
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Description	xii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-323) and index.
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.
Summary	Jeffrey examines the autobiographical writings of former abolitionists such as Laura Haviland, Frederick Douglass, Parker Pillsbury, and Samuel J. May, revealing that they wrote not only to counter the popular image of themselves as fanatics, but also to remind readers of the harsh reality of slavery and to advocate equal rights for African Americans in an era of growing racism, Jim Crow, and the Ku Klux Klan. --from publisher description.
Subject	Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States.
	Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Subject	Autobiography -- African American authors.
	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
	Autobiography.
	African American abolitionists -- Biography.
	Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography.
	Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography.
	Memory -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century.
Other Form:	Online version: Jeffrey, Julie Roy. Abolitionists remember. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008 (OCoLC)606149985
	Online version: Jeffrey, Julie Roy. Abolitionists remember. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008 (OCoLC)609224898
ISBN	9780807832080 cloth alkaline paper
	0807832081 cloth alkaline paper
	9780807858851 paperback alkaline paper
	0807858854 paperback alkaline paper

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