Abolitionists remember : antislavery autobiographies & the unfinished work of emancipation /
Julie Roy Jeffrey.
- 1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-323) and index.
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.
9781469602271
Abolitionists--United States--Biography. African American abolitionists--Biography. Fugitive slaves--United States--Biography. Autobiography. Autobiography--African American authors. Slaves--Emancipation--United States. Antislavery movements--History--United States--19th century. African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century. Memory--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century.
United States--History--Causes.--Civil War, 1861-1865