To live an antislavery life : personal politics and the antebellum Black middle class / Erica L. Ball.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
Main Author: Ball, Erica L., 1971-
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2012], ©2012.
Series:Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
Subjects:
Free African Americans > History > 19th century.
Free African Americans > Social conditions > 19th century.
Free African Americans > Attitudes > History > 19th century.
Citizenship > United States > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Physical Description:xv, 175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • African American advice literature and Black middle-class self-fashioning
  • Slave narratives and the Black self-made man
  • Antislavery discourse and the African American family
  • Domestic literature and the antislavery household
  • Transnationalism, revolution, and the Anglo-African magazine on the eve of the Civil War.