Hannah-Rose Murray
Biographic Data
| ID | 2735765 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hannah-Rose Murray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hannah-Rose |
| FAMILY NAME | Murray |
| SIGNATURE | MURRAY H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5870-210X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1937 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nineteenth-Century African American Speeches in Britain and Ireland
This is the first anthology of eighty speeches by forty-two world famous and under-researched African American freedom fighters, liberators and human rights campaigners living and working in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England in the nineteenth century. Their pioneering and revolutionary works are supported by an in-depth introductory essay, author biographies, scholarly annotations and detailed bibliographies. All these human rights orators tes…
Nineteenth-Century African American Narratives in Britain and Ireland
This is the first scholarly anthology of nineteen narratives written by African American authors and published in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth century. These literary works share the powerful life stories of inspirationally pioneering writers: Charles Freeman, Phebe Ann Jacobs, Benjamin Crompton Chisley/William Jones, John Hart, John Williams, Henry (surname unknown), James Watkins, William Gustavus Allen, John Comber, Sarah Parker Remon…
Jacob D. Green and Britain’s Nineteenth-Century Black Abolitionist Network
Jacob D. Green's speaking career in England (1863-66) is an exploration of how an independent, self-financed Black speaker became a networked abolitionist building on the achievements of other expatriate African American activists like Moses Roper and James Watkins. Born enslaved in Maryland, Green made serial escapes from enslavement in Kentucky and elsewhere in the United States, sojourning in Toronto before arriving in Lancashire at about age …
“Did He Ever Hear of Egypt or Carthage?” Moses Roper’s Literary and Oratorical Activism in the British Isles
Moses Roper was one of the first African Americans to conduct an extensive lecturing tour of Britain and Ireland, and he published an autobiographical narrative there in 1837. He was a groundbreaking force in his use of literary, oratorical, and visual forms to expose slavery’s brutalities, and throughout his speeches, he resolved to tell the truth about his experiences no matter the cost to his personal and financial circumstances. Despite his r…
The Black People's Side of the Story
Black freedom fighters have always been at the forefront pushing the United States to accept the ideals it was founded on and were-are-unrelenting in their groundbreaking campaigns for abolition, equality, and social justice. In this article, I argue that to add nuance and a greater understanding to the philosophies developed by such freedom fighters, it is necessary to evaluate the transatlantic connections between the United States and Britain.…
Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland, 1845-1895
The British Isles
Frederick Douglass was perhaps the most successful African American abolitionist to traverse the Atlantic and tour the British Isles. In town halls, churches, taverns, and private parlor rooms across the country he spoke to hundreds of thousands of people, sparking a wave of transatlantic abolition that had a deep impact on the British landscape. While he only traveled to Britain and Ireland three times, the friendships and networks he created, t…
Anti-Slavery Soiree. Mr. Douglas, The American Slave
Extract Mr. Douglas then rose, and was received with loud cheers.1 He said he felt grateful for the honour that had been done him, and gratified for the sake of the great and glorious cause which he came to advocate. He was frequently in the habit of meeting in such assemblies as this, and he assured them that he was never more delighted than at the present moment. – (cheers.) In the West Indies there had been 800,000 slaves, and the people of th…
Slavery in America: Frederick Douglass in Wakefield
Extract On Friday last, Mr. Frederick Douglass, and a deputation from the Anti Slavery Society, paid a visit to the town of Wakefield, and on the evening of that day, they addressed a most numerous and highly respectable gathering, of the inhabitants, in the Corn Exchange, on the subject of American slavery. Mr. DOUGLASS then arose, and was hailed with a hearty welcome from the vast assembly. After the cheering and clapping of hands, which contin…
Lectures on American Slavery
Extract Meetings were held relative to American Slavery, in School Wynd Chapel, on the evenings of Tuesday and Wednesday.1 Both nights the Chapel was crowded to excess; the passages on the second night were all thronged, and many had to return home, being unable to obtain a hearing. Mr Frederick Douglass (lately a slave himself), in contrasting the atrocities of slavery with all other institutions permitted by civil laws to exist in any other cou…
Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland, 1845-1895
“Death or Liberty”
In 1857, Henry Box Brown starred in Edward Gascoigne Burton's The Fugitive Free and The Nubian Captive , two “slave dramas” based on his life. His performance inevitably infused both with an antislavery message: in a radical departure from conventional black abolitionist strategies of resistance in the British Isles, the plays change our understanding of British anti-slavery, of Brown, and of black British performance in general. Despite his shor…
It is to a great extent, a new book ”
Formerly enslaved African American Josiah Henson is well-known for his association with the character of Uncle Tom from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Published in 1852, the literary phenomenon sold millions of copies throughout the nineteenth century, and also made a hero of Henson, who marketed his connection with the novel to great acclaim. However, Henson’s visit to Britain in 1876–1877, his revised edition of his narrative, and t…
Advocates of Freedom
During the nineteenth century and especially after the Civil War, scores of black abolitionists like Frederick Douglass, Moses Roper and Ellen Craft travelled to England, Ireland, Scotland, and parts of rural Wales to educate the public on slavery. By sharing their oratorical, visual, and literary testimony to transatlantic audiences, African American activists galvanised the antislavery movement, which had severe consequences for former slavehol…
I shall speak out against this and other evils’
Despite the onset of legal abolition in 1865, African American activists continued to be in the vanguard for defying transatlantic white supremacy in both the U.S. and the U.K. To irreversibly fulfil the failed promises of abolition, black women and men followed in the footsteps of their activist forebears to campaign and educate transatlantic audiences on global racism and the fact that U.S. slavery had never actually died. Based on newly excava…
With almost electric speed’
African American abolitionists made an indelible mark on nineteenth-century transatlantic society: their lectures were held in famous meeting halls, taverns, theatres, churches, and the private parlour rooms of wealthy patrons across the British Isles. This article will demonstrate how digital mapping techniques reveal not only the extent of how far African Americans travelled, but also how visualizing their tours can lead to new avenues of resea…
It is all a Thing of the Past
In his long and illustrious life, Frederick Douglass traveled to Britain three times and forged a special relationship with the nation and many of its people. When Douglass arrived in October 1886 with his wife, Helen Pitts, for an extended honeymoon trip around the European continent, his mission was largely a personal one. However, Douglass did not fail to exploit the opportunity to remind British audiences that racism—as a legacy of slavery—st…
A 'Negro Hercules
Black stardom is a burgeoning field, and the fame of formerly enslaved African Americans in Britain during the mid nineteenth century offers an intriguing case study. In 1846, one British newspaper described the ex-slave turned abolitionist Frederick Douglass as a ‘Negro Hercules’. During his British sojourn, Douglass travelled thousands of miles from Exeter to Edinburgh and contemporary newspapers waxed lyrical about his commanding stage presenc…
The Earlier Arabic Literature of Chess. Libro del Ajedrez, de sus Problemas y Sutilezas, de Autor Árabe desconcido. Por Félix M. Pareja Casañas. Publicaciones de las Escuelas de Estudios Árabes de Mad…
The Earlier Arabic Literature of Chess. Libro del Ajedrez, de sus Problemas y Sutilezas, de Autor Árabe desconcido. Por Félix M. Pareja Casañas. Publicaciones de las Escuelas de Estudios Árabes de Madrid y Granada, Serie A, Núm. 3. Madrid, 1935. - Volume 69 Issue 1
A 'Negro Hercules
Black stardom is a burgeoning field, and the fame of formerly enslaved African Americans in Britain during the mid nineteenth century offers an intriguing case study. In 1846, one British newspaper described the ex-slave turned abolitionist Frederick Douglass as a ‘Negro Hercules’. During his British sojourn, Douglass travelled thousands of miles from Exeter to Edinburgh and contemporary newspapers waxed lyrical about his commanding stage presenc…
The Earlier Arabic Literature of Chess. Libro del Ajedrez, de sus Problemas y Sutilezas, de Autor Árabe desconcido. Por Félix M. Pareja Casañas. Publicaciones de las Escuelas de Estudios Árabes de Mad…
The Earlier Arabic Literature of Chess. Libro del Ajedrez, de sus Problemas y Sutilezas, de Autor Árabe desconcido. Por Félix M. Pareja Casañas. Publicaciones de las Escuelas de Estudios Árabes de Madrid y Granada, Serie A, Núm. 3. Madrid, 1935. - Volume 69 Issue 1
A 'Negro Hercules
Black stardom is a burgeoning field, and the fame of formerly enslaved African Americans in Britain during the mid nineteenth century offers an intriguing case study. In 1846, one British newspaper described the ex-slave turned abolitionist Frederick Douglass as a ‘Negro Hercules’. During his British sojourn, Douglass travelled thousands of miles from Exeter to Edinburgh and contemporary newspapers waxed lyrical about his commanding stage presenc…
It is all a Thing of the Past
In his long and illustrious life, Frederick Douglass traveled to Britain three times and forged a special relationship with the nation and many of its people. When Douglass arrived in October 1886 with his wife, Helen Pitts, for an extended honeymoon trip around the European continent, his mission was largely a personal one. However, Douglass did not fail to exploit the opportunity to remind British audiences that racism—as a legacy of slavery—st…
With almost electric speed’
African American abolitionists made an indelible mark on nineteenth-century transatlantic society: their lectures were held in famous meeting halls, taverns, theatres, churches, and the private parlour rooms of wealthy patrons across the British Isles. This article will demonstrate how digital mapping techniques reveal not only the extent of how far African Americans travelled, but also how visualizing their tours can lead to new avenues of resea…
Advocates of Freedom
During the nineteenth century and especially after the Civil War, scores of black abolitionists like Frederick Douglass, Moses Roper and Ellen Craft travelled to England, Ireland, Scotland, and parts of rural Wales to educate the public on slavery. By sharing their oratorical, visual, and literary testimony to transatlantic audiences, African American activists galvanised the antislavery movement, which had severe consequences for former slavehol…
I shall speak out against this and other evils’
Despite the onset of legal abolition in 1865, African American activists continued to be in the vanguard for defying transatlantic white supremacy in both the U.S. and the U.K. To irreversibly fulfil the failed promises of abolition, black women and men followed in the footsteps of their activist forebears to campaign and educate transatlantic audiences on global racism and the fact that U.S. slavery had never actually died. Based on newly excava…
Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland, 1845-1895
The British Isles
Frederick Douglass was perhaps the most successful African American abolitionist to traverse the Atlantic and tour the British Isles. In town halls, churches, taverns, and private parlor rooms across the country he spoke to hundreds of thousands of people, sparking a wave of transatlantic abolition that had a deep impact on the British landscape. While he only traveled to Britain and Ireland three times, the friendships and networks he created, t…
Anti-Slavery Soiree. Mr. Douglas, The American Slave
Extract Mr. Douglas then rose, and was received with loud cheers.1 He said he felt grateful for the honour that had been done him, and gratified for the sake of the great and glorious cause which he came to advocate. He was frequently in the habit of meeting in such assemblies as this, and he assured them that he was never more delighted than at the present moment. – (cheers.) In the West Indies there had been 800,000 slaves, and the people of th…
Slavery in America: Frederick Douglass in Wakefield
Extract On Friday last, Mr. Frederick Douglass, and a deputation from the Anti Slavery Society, paid a visit to the town of Wakefield, and on the evening of that day, they addressed a most numerous and highly respectable gathering, of the inhabitants, in the Corn Exchange, on the subject of American slavery. Mr. DOUGLASS then arose, and was hailed with a hearty welcome from the vast assembly. After the cheering and clapping of hands, which contin…
Lectures on American Slavery
Extract Meetings were held relative to American Slavery, in School Wynd Chapel, on the evenings of Tuesday and Wednesday.1 Both nights the Chapel was crowded to excess; the passages on the second night were all thronged, and many had to return home, being unable to obtain a hearing. Mr Frederick Douglass (lately a slave himself), in contrasting the atrocities of slavery with all other institutions permitted by civil laws to exist in any other cou…
Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland, 1845-1895
“Death or Liberty”
In 1857, Henry Box Brown starred in Edward Gascoigne Burton's The Fugitive Free and The Nubian Captive , two “slave dramas” based on his life. His performance inevitably infused both with an antislavery message: in a radical departure from conventional black abolitionist strategies of resistance in the British Isles, the plays change our understanding of British anti-slavery, of Brown, and of black British performance in general. Despite his shor…
It is to a great extent, a new book ”
Formerly enslaved African American Josiah Henson is well-known for his association with the character of Uncle Tom from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Published in 1852, the literary phenomenon sold millions of copies throughout the nineteenth century, and also made a hero of Henson, who marketed his connection with the novel to great acclaim. However, Henson’s visit to Britain in 1876–1877, his revised edition of his narrative, and t…
“Did He Ever Hear of Egypt or Carthage?” Moses Roper’s Literary and Oratorical Activism in the British Isles
Moses Roper was one of the first African Americans to conduct an extensive lecturing tour of Britain and Ireland, and he published an autobiographical narrative there in 1837. He was a groundbreaking force in his use of literary, oratorical, and visual forms to expose slavery’s brutalities, and throughout his speeches, he resolved to tell the truth about his experiences no matter the cost to his personal and financial circumstances. Despite his r…
The Black People's Side of the Story
Black freedom fighters have always been at the forefront pushing the United States to accept the ideals it was founded on and were-are-unrelenting in their groundbreaking campaigns for abolition, equality, and social justice. In this article, I argue that to add nuance and a greater understanding to the philosophies developed by such freedom fighters, it is necessary to evaluate the transatlantic connections between the United States and Britain.…
Nineteenth-Century African American Speeches in Britain and Ireland
This is the first anthology of eighty speeches by forty-two world famous and under-researched African American freedom fighters, liberators and human rights campaigners living and working in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England in the nineteenth century. Their pioneering and revolutionary works are supported by an in-depth introductory essay, author biographies, scholarly annotations and detailed bibliographies. All these human rights orators tes…
Nineteenth-Century African American Narratives in Britain and Ireland
This is the first scholarly anthology of nineteen narratives written by African American authors and published in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth century. These literary works share the powerful life stories of inspirationally pioneering writers: Charles Freeman, Phebe Ann Jacobs, Benjamin Crompton Chisley/William Jones, John Hart, John Williams, Henry (surname unknown), James Watkins, William Gustavus Allen, John Comber, Sarah Parker Remon…
Jacob D. Green and Britain’s Nineteenth-Century Black Abolitionist Network
Jacob D. Green's speaking career in England (1863-66) is an exploration of how an independent, self-financed Black speaker became a networked abolitionist building on the achievements of other expatriate African American activists like Moses Roper and James Watkins. Born enslaved in Maryland, Green made serial escapes from enslavement in Kentucky and elsewhere in the United States, sojourning in Toronto before arriving in Lancashire at about age …
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