Giant's Causeway : Frederick Douglass's Irish odyssey and the making of an American visionary / Tom Chaffin.
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TextPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (362 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraitsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813936116 (e-book)
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Travel -- Ireland
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Relations with Irish
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Political and social views
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Oratory
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
- African American abolitionists -- Biography
- African American orators -- Biography
- Ireland -- Description and travel
- Ireland -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
- 973.8092 23
- E449.D75 C46 2014
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface: Great Brunswick Street -- Chronology -- Prologue: Commercial Wharf -- Part I. Republican slavery to monarchial freedom, Atlantic world, August 1845 -- "They need no credentials" -- RMS Cambria -- "Throw him overboard" -- Part III. Ireland, August 1845-January 1846 -- Dublin -- Friend Webb -- A storm over Drayton -- The Liberator -- Cork -- The apostle of temperance -- Limerick -- Belfast -- "The half has not been told" -- Part III. Britain, January 1846-April 1847 -- Britain -- "Lonely pilgrimage" -- RMS Cambria redux -- "This piteous storm" -- America, 1847-1865 -- "I am now buying type" -- "Mr. Editor, if you please" -- "Ourselves alone" -- "Self-made man" -- "Abolition war" -- Part V. Reckonings, Atlantic world and beyond, 1865-1895 -- "Traced like a wounded man, by the blood" -- Denouements -- Janus days -- "A height above the work and the world" -- A note on sources.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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