Book contents
- Advocates of Freedom
- Slaveries since Emancipation
- Advocates of Freedom
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1 “It Is Time for the Slaves to Speak”
- 2 “All the Bloody Paraphernalia of Slavery”
- 3 “[They Have] Not Ceased to Hold My Hand Since”
- 4 To “Frighten the Hyena Out of His Ferocity”
- 5 “I Would Much Rather Starve in England, a Free Woman, Than Be a Slave”
- 6 “Have No Fellowship I Pray You, with These Merciless Menstealers”
- 7 “My Name Is Not Tom”
- 8 “The Black People’s Side of the Story”
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - “All the Bloody Paraphernalia of Slavery”
Frederick Douglass’ Performative Strategies on the Victorian Stage
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2020
- Advocates of Freedom
- Slaveries since Emancipation
- Advocates of Freedom
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1 “It Is Time for the Slaves to Speak”
- 2 “All the Bloody Paraphernalia of Slavery”
- 3 “[They Have] Not Ceased to Hold My Hand Since”
- 4 To “Frighten the Hyena Out of His Ferocity”
- 5 “I Would Much Rather Starve in England, a Free Woman, Than Be a Slave”
- 6 “Have No Fellowship I Pray You, with These Merciless Menstealers”
- 7 “My Name Is Not Tom”
- 8 “The Black People’s Side of the Story”
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapters 2 and 3 focus on Frederick Douglass’ transatlantic journey to Britain between 1845 and 1847. Douglass epitomized the successful exploitation of adaptive resistance and showed that his employment of each triad’s element simultaneously could court significant fame. He recognized the essential importance of print culture, however, and as a result altered his relationship with that triad to place it center stage. Hence, Chapter 2 discusses Douglass’ performative strategies and his relationship with print culture. He incorporated both favorable and negative reviews of his lectures into his repertoire, and courted endless debate in the press. His invocation of strategic anglophilia was balanced with a chastisement of British policy that championed liberty without actively seeking to help the enslaved in America. Unlike Roper, Douglass was a virtuoso who could balance assimilationist and dissonant language effectively. As a result, Douglass caused a furor toward slavery that was unrivaled by any other African American within a similar time period.
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- Advocates of FreedomAfrican American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles, pp. 81 - 122Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020