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The Writings Of Thomas Smallwood
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A LongForgotten Black Abolitionist Who Liberated Captive Workers By The Wagonload, Brilliantly Satirized Slaveholders, And Gave The Underground Railroad Its Name.A Penguin Classicthomas Smallwood Was A Shoemaker By Day And An Organizer Of Mass Escapes From Slavery By Night. Twelve Years After Purchasing His Freedom, Smallwood Took To The Press And, Over A SixteenMonth Stretch Starting In 1842, Pseudonymously Published Newspaper Dispatches Ridiculing And Excoriating Enslavers By Name And Offering Sobering Reflections On The Depravity Of Slavery. With The Pen That Smallwood Called His Lash, He Leveraged Mockery To Flip The Oppressive Racial Power Structure Of America. These Dispatches, In Which Smallwood Was The First To Use Underground Railroad In Print, Are The Only Accounts Of Escapes To Be Published In Real Time, Imbuing SmallwoodS Subversive Wit With Urgency And Defiance. His 1851 Memoir Is Prescient On The United States Tormented Entanglement With Race.Penguin Classics Is The Leading Publisher Of Classic Literature In The EnglishSpeaking World, Representing A Global Bookshelf Of The Best Works Throughout History And Across Genres And Disciplines. Readers Trust The Series To Provide Authoritative Texts Enhanced By Introductions And Notes By Distinguished Scholars And Contemporary Authors, As Well As UpToDate Translations By AwardWinning Translators.
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