Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland, 1845-1895

Hannah-Rose Murray is a Teaching Fellow in US History at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Her first book, Advocates of Freedom: African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles, was published in 2020. Her accompanying website (www.frederickdouglassinbritain.com) maps thousands of Black activist speaking locations in Britain and Ireland and is the basis for her community and heritage work. John Kaufman-McKivigan is the Mary O’Brien Gibson Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis as well as the Editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers. He is author of numerous books and scholarly articles on abolitionism and other aspects of American reform history. He is currently preparing a study of Frederick Douglass’ participation in the overlapping movements for radial political, social, and economic change in the early years of Reconstruction

• Note on the TextAcknowledgementsTimelineMap of Frederick Douglass’s Speaking LocationsList of Frederick Douglass’s Speaking LocationsPart I: "To Tell His Own Story": Frederick Douglass and the British IslesPart II: "Men Naturally Love Liberty"Part III: "A Sunbeam into the Darknesses of the Hour": The Responses to Great BritainPart IV: "A Comrade in the Fight:" British Responses to Frederick DouglassBibliography Index

The historical span of Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland draws attention to material emerging from Douglass’s middle and late as well as his early career, offering the opportunity to engage with British and Irish material generated at his most radical moment—the relationship with John Brown that prompted Douglass’s flight to the UK following Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry—and during his most established period as a statesman and federal official. The geographical rationale of the book, its layout, and the extensive contextualization of the material to follow provided in Part 1, make this book particularly useful for undergraduate students of transatlantic history and culture, and for the general reader, while the primary sources will provide a lasting resource for future scholarship in the area.