| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 175 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
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Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
African American advice literature and Black middle-class self-fashioning -- Slave narratives and the Black self-made man -- Antislavery discourse and the African American family -- Domestic literature and the antislavery household -- Transnationalism, revolution, and the Anglo-African magazine on the eve of the Civil War. |
| Summary |
In this study of antebellum African American print culture in transnational perspective, Erica L. Ball explores the relationship between antislavery discourse and the emergence of the northern black middle class. Through innovative readings of slave narratives, sermons, fiction, convention proceedings, and the advice literature printed in forums like Freedom's Journal, the North Star, and the Anglo-African Magazine, Ball demonstrates that black figures such as Susan Paul, Frederick Douglass, and Martin Delany consistently urged readers to internalize their political principles and to interpret all their personal ambitions, private familial roles, and domestic responsibilities in light of the freedom struggle. Ultimately, they were admonished to embody the abolitionist agenda by living what the fugitive Samuel Ringgold Ward called an "antislavery life." Far more than calls for northern free blacks to engage in what scholars call "the politics of respectability," African American writers characterized true antislavery living as an oppositional stance rife with radical possibilities, a deeply personal politics that required free blacks to transform themselves into model husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, self-made men, and transnational freedom fighters in the mold of revolutionary figures from Haiti to Hungary. In the process, Ball argues, antebellum black writers crafted a set of ideals--simultaneously respectable and subversive--for their elite and aspiring African American readers to embrace in the decades before the Civil War. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Free African Americans -- History -- 19th century.
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Free African Americans. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Free African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Free African Americans -- Social conditions. |
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Free African Americans -- Attitudes -- History -- 19th century.
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Citizenship -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Citizenship. |
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United States. |
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Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Antislavery movements. |
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
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Race relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ball, Erica. To live an antislavery life. Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2012 9780820329765 (DLC) 2012006351 (OCoLC)778990793 |
| ISBN |
9780820344676 (electronic book) |
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0820344672 (electronic book) |
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9780820329765 |
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0820329762 |
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9780820343501 |
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0820343501 |
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9781283733328 |
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1283733323 |
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