Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland, 1845-1895

The historical span of Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland draws attention to material emerging from Douglass’s middle and late as well as his early career, offering the opportunity to engage with British and Irish material generated at his most radical moment—the relationship with John Brown that prompted Douglass’s flight to the UK following Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry—and during his most established period as a statesman and federal official. The geographical rationale of the book, its layout, and the extensive contextualization of the material to follow provided in Part 1, make this book particularly useful for undergraduate students of transatlantic history and culture, and for the general reader, while the primary sources will provide a lasting resource for future scholarship in the area. -- Fionnghuala Sweeney, Newcastle University * American Literary History *
In this comprehensive volume, Murray and Kaufman-McKivigan provide key documents and brilliant contextual framing that help us to recover the excitement and urgency of Frederick Douglass’s visits to Britain and Ireland over a nearly fifty-year period. This is a major contribution to our understanding of the trans-Atlantic Douglass. -- Robert S. Levine, University of Maryland, and author of The Lives of Frederick Douglass