American Slaves in Victorian England: Abolitionist Politics in Popular Literature and Culture

Book info: American Slaves in Victorian England: Abolitionist Politics in Popular Literature and Culture (Hardcover, 150 pages) – Cambridge University Press, 2000. Language: English.

Audrey Fisch's study examines the circulation within England of the people and ideas of the black Abolitionist campaign. 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. Editorial Reviews Review "she has provided a fascinating insight into the British response to a brief, intense cultural phenomenon worked in the context of mid-nineteenthy-century England and America." Victorian Periodicals Reveiw Book Description This 2000 study examines the circulation within nineteenth-century England of the people and ideas of the black Abolitionist campaign.