Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic world /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Sweeney, Fionnghuala.
Imprint:	Liverpool [England] : Liverpool University Press, 2007.
Description:	210 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Douglass, Frederick, -- 1818-1895. Douglass, Frederick, -- 1818-1895 -- Travel -- Great Britain. Douglass, Frederick, -- 1818-1895 -- Travel -- Ireland. Douglass, Frederick, -- 1818-1895. Travel. United States -- History -- 1865-1898. Great Britain. Ireland. United States. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6629482

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ISBN:	1846310784 (hbk.) 9781846310782 (hbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-205) and index.
Summary:	"This innovative book focuses specifically on Douglass's Atlantic encounters, literal and literary, against the backdrop of slavery, emancipation, and western colonial process. Sweeney considers the effect of extraterritorial sites - for example Ireland, Haiti and Egypt - on Douglass's writing, self-construction, national, class and racial identity, and status as representative US American man."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World
1. 'The Republic of Letters': Frederick Douglass, Ireland and the Irish Narratives
2. Friends and Allies: The Economics of the Text
3. An American Slave: Representing the Creole Self
4. The Hidden Ireland: Social Commentary and Public Witness
5. 'Mask in Motion': Dialect Spaces and Class Representation
6. Race, Civilization, Empire
7. Models of Progress: Ireland, Haiti and the Atlantic
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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