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Giant'S Causeway: Frederick Douglass'S Irish Odyssey And The Making Of An American Visionary,Used
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In 1845, seven years after fleeing bondage in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was in his late twenties and already a celebrated lecturer across the northern United States. The recent publication of his groundbreaking Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave had incited threats to his life, however, and to place himself out of harm's way he embarked on a lecture tour of the British Isles, a journey that would span seventeen months and change him as a man and a leader in the struggle for equality.In the first major narrative account of a transformational episode in the life of this extraordinary American, Tom Chaffin chronicles Douglasss 184547 lecture tour of Ireland, Scotland, and England. It was, however, the Emerald Isle, above all, that affected Douglassfrom its wild landscape ('I have travelled almost from the hill of Howth to the Giants Causeway') to the plight of its people, with which he found parallels to that of African Americans. Writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, critic David Kipen has called Chaffin a 'thorough and uncommonly graceful historian.' Possessed of an epic, transatlantic scope, Chaffins new book makes Douglasss historic journey vivid for the modern reader and reveals how the former slaves growing awareness of intersections between Irish, American, and African history shaped the rest of his life.The experience accelerated Douglass's transformation from a teller of his own life story into a commentator on contemporary issuesa transition discouraged during his early lecturing days by white colleagues at the American AntiSlavery Society. ('Give us the facts,' he had been instructed, 'we will take care of the philosophy.') As the tour progressed, newspaper coverage of his passage through Ireland and Great Britain enhanced his stature dramatically. When he finally returned to America he had the platform of an international celebrity.Drawn from hundreds of letters, diaries, and other primarysource documentsmany heretofore unpublishedthis farreaching tale includes vivid portraits of personages who shaped Douglass and his world, including the Irish nationalists Daniel O'Connell and John Mitchel, British prime minister Robert Peel, abolitionist John Brown, and Abraham Lincoln.Giants Causewaywhich includes an account of Douglass's final, bittersweet, visit to Ireland in 1887shows how experiences under foreign skies helped him hone habits of independence, discretion, compromise, selfreliance, and political dexterity. Along the way, it chronicles Douglasss transformation from activist foot soldier to moral visionary.
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