To Live an Antislavery Life Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class

Name: To Live an Antislavery Life Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class
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ISBN: 9780820343501

ISBN-10: 0820343501

ISBN-13: 9780820343501

Edition: 2012

Authors: Erica L. Ball, Patrick Rael, Richard S. Newman

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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…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 11/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



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


Epilogue


Notes


Index