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- Title
Advocates of Freedom: African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles / The Ties That Bind: Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820–1865.
- Authors
Scanlan, Padraic X.
- Abstract
Oldfield commits to the argument that the transatlantic abolitionist movement in Britain ought to be a model for contemporary political struggles for social justice. Where Douglass made careful, tactical appeals to British jingoism, Oldfield argues that "Douglass would never lose his enthusiasm for Britain or for the meaning of West India Emancipation" (30). British abolitionists were as impressed with the gradual emancipation laws passed in the mid-Atlantic United States, beginning with Pennsylvania in 1780, as American abolitionists would be with the laws passed in Britain in 1807 and 1833.
- Subjects
BRITISH Isles; ANTISLAVERY movements; AFRICAN Americans; SLAVERY in the United States; AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865; STATE power
- Publication
Victorian Studies, 2023, Vol 65, Issue 2, p309
- ISSN
0042-5222
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/vic.2023.a911113