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'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass: An American Slave in Victorian Britain
Contributor(s): Fenton, Laurence (Author)

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ISBN: 1445670194     ISBN-13: 9781445670195
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
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Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: February 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Modern - 19th Century
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" L (1.23 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
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In the summer of 1845, Frederick Douglass, the young runaway slave catapulted to fame by his incendiary autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, arrived in Liverpool for the start of a near-two-year tour of Britain and Ireland he always called one of the most transformative periods of his life. Laurence Fenton draws on a wide array of sources from both sides of the Atlantic and combines a unique insight into the early years of one of the great figures of the nineteenth-century world with rich profiles of the enormous personalities at the heart of the transatlantic anti-slavery movement. This vivid portrait of life in Victorian Britain is the first to fully explore the 'liberating sojourn' that ended with Douglass gaining his freedom - paid for by British supporters - before returning to America as a celebrity and icon of international standing. It also follows his later life, through the American Civil War and afterwards. Douglass has been described as 'the most influential African American of the nineteenth century'. He spoke and wrote on behalf of a variety of reform causes: women's rights, temperance, peace, land reform, free public education and the abolition of capital punishment. But he devoted most of his time, immense talent and boundless energy to ending slavery. On April 14, 1876, Douglass would deliver the keynote speech at the unveiling of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington's Lincoln Park.

Contributor Bio(s): Fenton, Laurence: - Laurence Fenton is a writer and editor living in Cork, Ireland. He holds a PhD in history from University College Cork and is the author of four books, including two on the famous American slave Frederick Douglass.
 
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