David W. Blight | Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.4

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Book Review

Liberating Sojourn: Frederick Douglass & Transatlantic Reform. Ed. by Alan J. Rice and Martin Crawford. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999. xii, 217 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8203-2102-8. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-8203-2129-X.)

The aim of this fine book of essays is to understand just how much Frederick Douglass educated his Irish, Scottish, and British audiences and how much he was in turn educated by his own transatlantic experience. Emanating from a conference at Keele University in 1995, this collection is an important marker in transnational scholarship about Douglass and antebellum reform. 1

The editors, Alan J. Rice and Martin Crawford, claim "no preconceived or uniform strategy." What connects most of the essays are the themes of influence and liberation. The book provides the varied contexts for Douglass's journey into international abolitionism—the British egalitarianism and racism that African American reformers faced, as well as Douglass's own prejudices toward Irish Catholicism. William McFeely keynoted the conference by stressing Douglass's relevance in the 1990s; he turns Douglass's reputation for racial assimilation into an enduring symbol of American pluralism and the strength of multiple identities. . . .

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