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Abolitionists remember antislavery autobiographies & the unfinished work of emancipation

Title: Abolitionists remember [electronic resource] : antislavery autobiographies & the unfinished work of emancipation / Julie Roy Jeffrey.
Author: Jeffrey, Julie Roy.
Publication: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.

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Description

1 online resource (xii, 337 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

Abolitionists remember (Online)

Alternative Title

Abolitionists remember (Online)

Subject

Abolitionists > United States > Biography
African American abolitionists > Biography
Fugitive slaves > United States > Biography
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 > History > United States > 19th century
United States > History > Causes. > Civil War, 1861-1865

Bibliography (note)

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

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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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