Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro
Author: Samuel R. Ward
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2000-12-01
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 1579105696
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Samuel R. Ward
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2000-12-01
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 1579105696
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Samuel Ringgold B 1817 Ward
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781017805598
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: R. J. M. Blackett
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2023-03-28
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0300254946
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The rediscovery of a pivotal figure in Black history and his importance and influence in the struggle against slavery and discrimination Born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Samuel Ringgold Ward (1817-c. 1869) escaped enslavement and would become a leading figure in the struggle for Black freedom, citizenship, and equality. He was extolled by his contemporary Frederick Douglass for his "depth of thought, fluency of speech, readiness of wit, logical exactness." Until now, his story has been largely untold. Ward, a newspaper editor, Congregational minister, and advocate for the temperance movement, was considered one of the leading orators of his time. After the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 he fled to Canada, where he lectured widely to improve conditions for formerly enslaved people who had settled there. Ward then went to Britain as an agent of the Canadian Antislavery Society and published his influential book Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro. He never returned to the United States, and he died in obscurity in Jamaica. Despite Ward's prominent role in the abolitionist movement, his story has been lost because of the decades he spent in exile. In this book, R. J. M. Blackett brings light to Ward's life and his important role in the struggle against slavery and discrimination, and to the personal price he paid for confronting oppression.
Author: Erica Ball
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2012-11-01
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 0820343501
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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. Published in association with the Library Company of Philadelphia's Program in African American History. A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication.
Author: Samuel Ringgold Ward
Publisher:
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781422717288
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →High quality reprint of Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His anti-slavery labours in the United States, Canada, and England. by Samuel Ringgold Ward.
Author: Christine Kinealy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-04-28
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1000065553
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of the anti-slavery movement in Ireland is little known, yet when Frederick Douglass visited the country in 1845, he described Irish abolitionists as the most ‘ardent’ that he had ever encountered. Moreover, their involvement proved to be an important factor in ending the slave trade, and later slavery, in both the British Empire and in America. While Frederick Douglass remains the most renowned black abolitionist to visit Ireland, he was not the only one. This publication traces the stories of ten black abolitionists, including Douglass, who travelled to Ireland in the decades before the American Civil War, to win support for their cause. It opens with former slave, Olaudah Equiano, kidnapped as a boy from his home in Africa, and who was hosted by the United Irishmen in the 1790s; it closes with the redoubtable Sarah Parker Remond, who visited Ireland in 1859 and chose never to return to America. The stories of these ten men and women, and their interactions with Ireland, are diverse and remarkable.
Author: Ronald K. Burke
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780815319306
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: R. J. M. Blackett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-01-25
Total Pages: 531
ISBN-13: 1108418716
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the impact fugitive slaves had on the Fugitive Slave Law and the coming of the American Civil War.
Author: Eric Herschthal
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2021-05-25
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0300258550
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A revealing look at how antislavery scientists and Black and white abolitionists used scientific ideas to discredit slaveholders In the context of slavery, science is usually associated with slaveholders’ scientific justifications of racism. But abolitionists were equally adept at using scientific ideas to discredit slaveholders. Looking beyond the science of race, The Science of Abolition shows how Black and white scientists and abolitionists drew upon a host of scientific disciplines—from chemistry, botany, and geology, to medicine and technology—to portray slaveholders as the enemies of progress. From the 1770s through the 1860s, scientists and abolitionists in Britain and the United States argued that slavery stood in the way of scientific progress, blinded slaveholders to scientific evidence, and prevented enslavers from adopting labor-saving technologies that might eradicate enslaved labor. While historians increasingly highlight slavery’s centrality to the modern world, fueling the rise of capitalism, science, and technology, few have asked where the myth of slavery’s backwardness comes from in the first place. This book contends that by routinely portraying slaveholders as the enemies of science, abolitionists and scientists helped generate that myth.