Advocates of Freedom

A transatlantic study focusing on African American resistance through unexplored oratorical and performative testimony in the British Isles.

Introduction: 'To Tell The Truth': African American activism in the British Isles 1835¿1895; 1. 'It Is Time For The Slaves to Speak': Moses Roper, white networks and 'Lying Inventions' 1835¿1855; 2. 'All the Bloody Paraphernalia of Slavery': Frederick Douglass' performative strategies on the Victorian stage; 3. '[They Have] Not Ceased to Hold My Hand Since': Frederick Douglass, print culture and abolitionist networks; 4. To 'Frighten The Hyena Out Of His Ferocity': black activism in Britain 1850¿1860; 5. 'I Would Much Rather Starve In England, A Free Woman, Than Be A Slave': black women and adaptive resistance 1850¿1865; 6. 'Have No Fellowship I Pray You, With These Merciless Menstealers': black activism, the Confederacy and scientific racism during the Civil War 1861¿1865; 7. 'My Name is Not Tom': Josiah Henson, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and adaptive resistance after the Civil War 1876¿1877; 8. 'The Black People's Side Of The Story': Ida B. Wells and the anti-lynching crusade in Britain 1893¿1894; 9. 'To Tell the Story of the Slave': the legacy of African American transatlantic resistance.