American slaves in Victorian England : abolitionist politics in popular literature and culture / Aud...
American slaves in Victorian England : abolitionist politics in popular literature and culture / Aud...
American slaves in Victorian England : abolitionist politics in popular literature and culture / Audrey A. Fisch.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Date
2000.
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N326.80942/ 1
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English
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x, 139 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Communicating "a correct knowledge of American Slavery": J. B. Estlin and the "breeder" in Frederick Douglass's Narrative -- 1. "Exhibiting Uncle Tom in some shape or other": the commercialization and reception of Uncle Tom's Cabin in England -- 2. Abolition as a "step to reform in our...
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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England
Date Published
2000.
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"During the 1850s, African-Americans and others active in the campaign to abolish slavery journeyed to England to present the slave experience and rouse opposition to American slavery. By focusing on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, an anonymous sequel to that novel - Uncle Tom in England - and John Brown's Slave Life in Georgia, and the...
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American slaves in Victorian England : abolitionist politics in popular literature and culture / Audrey A. Fisch.
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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-136).
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N326.80942/ 1
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74VvQ6PKr7pZ
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9780521660266 :
0521660262 :
9780521660266 (hb)
0521660262 (hb)
9780521666268 (hb)
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326.8094209034
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991014441539702626
