
Undoing Slavery
American Abolotionism in Transnational Perspective (1776-1865)
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Undoing Slavery
American Abolotionism in Transnational Perspective (1776-1865)
About this book
Undoing Slavery: American Abolitionism in Transnational Perspective (1776-1865) is a collection of seven essays by leading and emerging scholars of abolition in France. Contributors to the volume situate American abolitionism in a transnational framework, pointing out how slaves running away to Canada, free African Americans emigrating to Haiti and activists meeting in a Paris salon all influenced the fate of slavery in the United States. In the wake of recent historiographical trends, they extend not only the geography but also the chronology of abolitionism, attending to its development and evolutions over the longue durée. Special emphasis is also placed on the varied print culture of abolition, from antislavery novels, newspapers, gift books and almanacs to black-authored pamphlets and printed orations on the abolition of the slave trade. Undoing Slavery is prefaced by Manisha Sinha, author of the award-winning The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Bibliographic informations
- First pages
- Notes
- Table of contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Its Afterlives in North American Abolitionist Print Culture
- African American Emigrationists and the Voluntary Emigration Movement to Haiti, 1804-1862
- Competing Narratives
- Fiction and the Debate over Slavery
- “Printers were almost afraid to set up the types”
- “The spirit of the age is on our side”
- Abolition and Women’s Rights Before and After the Civil War
- Bibliography