| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Book Review

Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation. By Julie Roy Jeffrey. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xiv, 337 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3208-0. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5885-1.)

The subject of Julie Roy Jeffrey's book is an uncommon one, the reminiscences of abolitionists after the Civil War. As she expertly points out, the old antislavery fighters, whether moralists or realists, were contending against ever-receding interest in their achievements. As time went on, the myths of the noble slaveholders and troublesome abolitionists became more prominent, and because the abolitionists lacked an organization, they had great difficulty contradicting those ideas. Publishers for their memoirs were hard to find; the books they wrote, often not of the best literary quality, were equally hard to sell, and their influence remained minimal.

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