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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Black Abolitionist"”.
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Black Abolitionists and Masculinity in the Age of American Emancipation, 1833-1863
… effort to fill a lacuna in the historiography of black abolitionists and gender studies, this dissertation examines black abolitionists’ conceptions of masculinity and their efforts to grapple with manhood in a time of great change and transition. The focus of this work are three escaped slaves …
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Douglass, Jacobs, and Freedom Found in Resistance
The narratives of abolitionist thinkers Frederick Douglass - My Bondage and My Freedom - and Harriet Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - both include instances of the authors engaging in resistance against their slaveholders that do not free them from slavery. I begin with these …