Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction:Communicating “a correct knowledge of American Slavery”: J. B. Estlin and the “breeder” in Frederick Douglass's Narrative
- 1 “Exhibiting Uncle Tom in some shape or other”: the commercialization and reception of Uncle Tom's Cabin in England
- 2 Abolition as a “step to reform in our kingdom”: Chartism, “white slaves,” and a new “Uncle Tom” in England
- 3 “Repetitious accounts so piteous and so harrowing”: the ideological work of American slave narratives in England
- 4 “Negrophilism” and nationalism: the spectacle of the African-American abolitionist
- Epilogue:“How cautious and calculating”: English audiences and the impostor, Reuben Nixon
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 February 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction:Communicating “a correct knowledge of American Slavery”: J. B. Estlin and the “breeder” in Frederick Douglass's Narrative
- 1 “Exhibiting Uncle Tom in some shape or other”: the commercialization and reception of Uncle Tom's Cabin in England
- 2 Abolition as a “step to reform in our kingdom”: Chartism, “white slaves,” and a new “Uncle Tom” in England
- 3 “Repetitious accounts so piteous and so harrowing”: the ideological work of American slave narratives in England
- 4 “Negrophilism” and nationalism: the spectacle of the African-American abolitionist
- Epilogue:“How cautious and calculating”: English audiences and the impostor, Reuben Nixon
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- American Slaves in Victorian EnglandAbolitionist Politics in Popular Literature and Culture, pp. viii - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000