The Roving Editor: Or Talks with Slaves in the Southern States, by James Redpath - Tapa blanda

 
9780271026022: The Roving Editor: Or Talks with Slaves in the Southern States, by James Redpath
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ISBN 10: 0271026022 ISBN 13: 9780271026022
Editorial: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996

Sinopsis

While a reporter at Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, James Redpath developed a strong curiosity about slavery and decided that he would travel south ""to see slavery with my own eyes."" Redpath interviewed slaves, recorded their opinions, and collected these letters into book form, publishing them in 1859 as The Roving Editor. While some historians over the years have utilized Redpath's book, many have treated it as merely another travel account of the antebellum South, dismissing the interviews as the fabrication of a radical abolitionist. John R. McKivigan has uncovered important historical records that certify for the first time the authenticity of Redpath's interviews; he presents here the original newspaper articles that supply the places and times of many of the slave encounters, which Redpath had edited out of the book. Furthermore, using Redpath's unpublished correspondence, McKivigan verifies his residence in southern communities at the times these interviews were reported to have taken place, making The Roving Editor one of the most valuable and compelling sources of the slaves' own testimony regarding their treatment in the late antebellum period.

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John R. McKivigan is Associate Professor of History at West Virginia University. He is the co-editor, with John Blassingame, of The Frederick Douglass Papers and author of The War Against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and the Northern Churches (1984).

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Editorial
Pennsylvania State University Press
Año de publicación
1996
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0271026022
ISBN 13 
9780271026022
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
388
Editor
McKivigan John
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ISBN 10:  0271015330 ISBN 13:  9780271015330
Editorial: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996
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