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963608
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b717978
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Fisch, Audrey A.
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| Title & Author
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American slaves in Victorian England : : abolitionist politics in popular literature and culture /\ Audrey A. Fisch.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, U.K. ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2000.
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1 online resource (x, 139 pages)
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| ISBN
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0511553838
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: 0521121655
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: 9780511553837
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: 9780521121651
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0521660262
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9780521121651
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9780521660266
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-136) and index.
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| Abstract
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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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African American abolitionists-- England-- History-- 19th century.
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American literature-- 19th century-- Appreciation-- England.
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Americans-- England-- History-- 19th century.
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Antislavery movements-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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National characteristics, English-- History-- 19th century.
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Slavery in literature.
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African American abolitionists.
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American literature-- Appreciation.
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Americans.
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Antislavery movements.
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Civilization-- American influences.
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National characteristics, English.
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Slavery in literature.
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Great Britain, Civilization, American influences.
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England.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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326/.8/094209034
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| LC Classification
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HT1163.F47 2000eb
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