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Abolitionists Remember - Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation (Paperback, New edition)
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Abolitionists Remember - Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation (Paperback, New edition)
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This is the first book to explore abolitionist autobiographies in
the post - Civil War era.In ""Abolitionists Remember"", Julie Roy
Jeffrey illuminates a second, little-noted antislavery struggle as
abolitionists in the postwar period attempted to counter the
nation's growing inclination to forget why the war was fought, what
slavery was really like, and why the abolitionist cause was so
important.In the rush to mend fences after the Civil War, the
memory of the past faded and turned romantic - slaves became
quaint, owners kindly, and the war itself a noble struggle for the
Union. Jeffrey examines the autobiographical writings of former
abolitionists such as Laura Haviland, Frederick Douglass, Parker
Pillsbury, and Samuel J. May, revealing that they wrote not only to
counter the popular image of themselves as fanatics, but also to
remind readers of the harsh reality of slavery and to advocate
equal rights for African Americans in an era of growing racism, Jim
Crow, and the Ku Klux Klan. These abolitionists, who went to great
lengths to get their accounts published, challenged every important
point of the reconciliation narrative, trying to salvage the
nobility of their work for emancipation and African Americans and
defending their own participation in the great events of their day.
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