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Abolitionists remember : antislavery autobiographies & the unfinished work of emancipation / Julie Roy Jeffrey.

Author/creator Jeffrey, Julie Roy
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Abolitionists--United States --Biography.
African American abolitionists--Biography.
Fugitive slaves--United States --Biography.
Autobiography.
Autobiography--African American authors.
Enslaved persons--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.
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [303]-323) and index.
LCCN 2007045616
ISBN9780807832080 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807832081 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780807858851 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0807858854 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks E 449 .J455 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold
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