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Article: Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- August 1, 2009
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Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation. By Julie Roy Jeffrey. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2008. Pp. [xiv], 337. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5885-1; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3208-0.)
In Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation, Julie Roy Jeffrey follows the abolitionist movement into the post-Civil War era to investigate how antislavery activists attempted to write the history of their movement, the war, and its aftermath on their own terms. Jeffrey is interested in historical memory, but she moves away from recent studies of ...