Abolitionists remember [electronic resource] : antislavery autobiographies & the unfinished work of emancipation / Julie Roy Jeffrey.
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TextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.Description: xii, 337 p. : illSubject(s): - Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography
- African American abolitionists -- Biography
- Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography
- Autobiography
- Autobiography -- African American authors
- Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century
- Memory -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes
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- E449 .J455 2008eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-323) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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