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'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass - An American Slave in Victorian Britain (Hardcover)
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'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass - An American Slave in Victorian Britain (Hardcover)
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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.
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