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American Slaves in Victorian England - Abolitionist Politics in Popular Literature and Culture (Paperback)
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American Slaves in Victorian England - Abolitionist Politics in Popular Literature and Culture (Paperback)
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Audrey Fisch's study, first published in 2000, examines the
circulation within England of the people and ideas of the black
Abolitionist campaign. 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 lecture
tours of free blacks and ex-slaves, Fisch follows the discourse of
American abolitionism as it moved across the Atlantic and was
reshaped by domestic Victorian debates about popular culture and
taste, the worker versus the slave, popular education, and working
class self-improvement. Despite its popular appeal, she claims, the
African-American abolitionist campaign actually re-energised
English nationalism. This book will be of interest to students of
African-American literature, and nineteenth-century American and
English literature.
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