Autographs for Freedom and Reaching a New Abolitionist Audience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3663180 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John R Mckivigan, Rebecca A Pattillo, Rebecca Pattillo |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-51 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1548-1867 • E-ISSN: 2153-5086 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5323/jafriamerhist.102.1.0035 |
| OpenAlex | W2988323021 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
Scholars correctly appreciate Frederick Douglass’s novella The Heroic Slave (1853) as an important early work of African American literature and as a significant indicator of its author’s endorsement of violent tactics to end slavery in the United States.1 This essay will literally step back farther from the text of Douglass’s only fictional work, and examine The Heroic Slave as a component of a larger project—the gift book Autographs for Freedom—edited by Douglass and his closest ally in the early 1850s, British abolitionist Julia Griffiths. The thirty-nine pieces of short fiction, poetry, essays, and correspondence in the 263-page anthology were envisioned as tools to construct a wider and politically more potent antislavery alliance than any in which the two abolitionists had previously participated. In the diverse composition of its collection of authors and antislavery themes, Autographs for Freedom was both a cultural and political tool designed by Douglass and Griffiths to help assemble a more powerful antislavery coalition from the volume’s reading audience
Art · Art history · Autograph · Political science · American History and Culture · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |