TY - BOOK ID - 85465876 TI - American slaves in Victorian England : abolitionist politics in popular literature and culture PY - 2000 SN - 0511553838 0521660262 0521121655 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Antislavery movements KW - African American abolitionists KW - National characteristics, English KW - American literature KW - Americans KW - Slavery in literature. KW - Slavery and slaves in literature KW - Slaves in literature KW - English literature KW - Agrarians (Group of writers) KW - English national characteristics KW - Abolitionists, African American KW - Afro-American abolitionists KW - Abolitionists KW - Abolitionism KW - Anti-slavery movements KW - Slavery KW - Human rights movements KW - History KW - Appreciation KW - Great Britain KW - United States KW - Civilization KW - American influences. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature KW - Enslaved persons in literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85465876 AB - Audrey Fisch's study, first published in 2000, examines the circulation within England of the people and ideas of the black Abolitionist campaign. During the 1850s, African-Americans and others active in the campaign to abolish slavery, journeyed to England to present the slave experience and rouse opposition to American slavery. By focusing on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, an anonymous sequel to that novel, Uncle Tom in England, and John Brown's Slave Life in Georgia, and the lecture tours of free blacks and ex-slaves, Fisch follows the discourse of American abolitionism as it moved across the Atlantic and was reshaped by domestic Victorian debates about popular culture and taste, the worker versus the slave, popular education, and working class self-improvement. Despite its popular appeal, she claims, the African-American abolitionist campaign actually re-energised English nationalism. This book will be of interest to students of African-American literature, and nineteenth-century American and English literature. ER -