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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.

Antislavery movements --- African American abolitionists --- National characteristics, English --- American literature --- Americans --- Slavery in literature. --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- English national characteristics --- Abolitionists, African American --- Afro-American abolitionists --- Abolitionists --- Abolitionism --- Anti-slavery movements --- Slavery --- Human rights movements --- History --- Appreciation --- Great Britain --- United States --- Civilization --- American influences. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Enslaved persons in literature

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This volume offers a practical model that teachers in any discipline can use to incorporate informational texts into their classrooms on their own or in collaboration with colleagues in other content areas. We also share suggestions and ideas for initiating and implementing collaboration between teachers of any discipline, even those working at the secondary level with complex schedules and curricula.

Content area reading. --- Reading (Elementary) --- Reading comprehension --- Reading (Secondary) --- Study and teaching (Elementary)