Harriet Jacobs among the Militants
Transformations in Abolition's Public Sphere, 1859-61
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3174176 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caleb Smith (0000-0001-8270-3938, Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 743-768 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9831 • E-ISSN: 1527-2117 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00029831-1901427 |
| OpenAlex | W1987451109 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This essay examines previously unexplored divisions within the antislavery movement's published responses to Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Revisiting Jacobs's conflict with her editor, Lydia Maria Child, over the suppressed chapter about John Brown, Smith emphasizes reception rather than authorial intention to show how the militant abolitionist James Redpath and his journal, the Anglo-African, aligned Jacobs's book with the legacy of Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. While Garrisonian pacifists like Child emphasized the moral influence of Jacobs's testimony, Redpath saw it as a contribution to a circum-Atlantic project of black resistance, liberation, and uplift that crossed lines of race and gender
Art history · Girl · Militant · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Race (biology) · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · History · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |