This book shows that addressing crowded halls from Ayr to Aberdeen, Frederick Douglass gained the confidence, mastered the skills and fashioned the distinctive voice that transformed him as a campaigner.
This book shows that addressing crowded halls from Ayr to Aberdeen, Frederick Douglass gained the confidence, mastered the skills and fashioned the distinctive voice that transformed him as a campaigner.
Alasdair Pettinger studied at the Universities of Birmingham and Essex, completing his PhD in Literature in 1988 while working as a civil servant in London. Since 1992, he has been based in Glasgow, working at the Scottish Music Centre and pursuing his academic interests as an independent scholar. He has held visiting research fellowships at the University of Central Lancashire (2000), Nottingham Trent University (2004-2007) and the University of Liverpool (2010-2013). He is the editor of Always Elsewhere: Travels of the Black Atlantic (1998), and has published a number of essays reflecting his (overlapping) interests in travel literature, the cultures of slavery and abolitionism, and representations of Haiti.
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List of Figures Part I: The Voyage 1. 'Throw Him Overboard' 2. The Making of a Fugitive 3. 'Put Them in Irons' Part II: Dark, Polluted Gold 4. Electric Speed 5. That Ticklish Possession 6. The Free Church Responds 7. The Price of Freedom 8. The Genealogy of Money 9. Gilded Cages Part III: Douglass, Scott and Burns 10. 'One of Scotland's Many Famous Names' 11. A Wild Proposition 12. New Relations and Duties 13. A Visit to Ayr 14. The Coward Slave and the Poor Negro Driver 15. Crooked Paths 16.The Sons and Daughters of Old Scotia Part IV: Measuring Heads, Reading Faces 17. Breakfast with Combe 18. The Physiological Century 19. Travelling Phrenologically 20. A Glut of Ethiopians 21. Douglass on Stage 22. The Suit and the Engraving Part V: The Voyage Home 23. A Disconnected Farewell 24. Cabin 72 25. Never Again Part VI: The Affinity Scot 26. Recitals of Blood 27. Choosing Ancestors 28. Remembering Douglass 29. Out of My Place Acknowledgements Index.
List of Figures Part I: The Voyage 1. 'Throw Him Overboard' 2. The Making of a Fugitive 3. 'Put Them in Irons' Part II: Dark, Polluted Gold 4. Electric Speed 5. That Ticklish Possession 6. The Free Church Responds 7. The Price of Freedom 8. The Genealogy of Money 9. Gilded Cages Part III: Douglass, Scott and Burns 10. 'One of Scotland's Many Famous Names' 11. A Wild Proposition 12. New Relations and Duties 13. A Visit to Ayr 14. The Coward Slave and the Poor Negro Driver 15. Crooked Paths 16.The Sons and Daughters of Old Scotia Part IV: Measuring Heads, Reading Faces 17. Breakfast with Combe 18. The Physiological Century 19. Travelling Phrenologically 20. A Glut of Ethiopians 21. Douglass on Stage 22. The Suit and the Engraving Part V: The Voyage Home 23. A Disconnected Farewell 24. Cabin 72 25. Never Again Part VI: The Affinity Scot 26. Recitals of Blood 27. Choosing Ancestors 28. Remembering Douglass 29. Out of My Place Acknowledgements Index.
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