Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation

Contents

c o n t e n t s Acknowledgments ix Chronology xi Introduction 1 ritual฀remembrances฀i฀ The Dissolution of the Antislavery Societies 11 chapter฀1฀ The First Recollections 25 chapter฀2฀ Fugitives as Part of Abolitionist History 61 ritual฀remembrances฀ii฀ Reunions 97 chapter฀3 “Nigger Thieves” Whites and the Underground Railroad 111 chapter฀4฀ Defending the Past The 1880s 155 ritual฀remembrances฀iii฀ The Last Gatherings 203 chapter฀5฀ The Remembrance Is Like a Dream Reminiscences of the 1890s 217 Afterword 247 Notes 255 Bibliography 303 Index 325 This page intentionally left blank i l l u s t r a t i o n s Cover of the May 26, 1866, issue of Harper’s Weekly 50 William Still 65 “Desperate Conflict in a Barn” 77 “Mrs. Haviland and the Blood-hounds” 134 Publisher’s bill for Laura Haviland 149 An advertisement for Frederick Douglass’s Life and Times 170 Frederick Douglass as marshal 172 Danvers Historical Society, 1893 212 Frontispiece of Lucy Colman’s Reminiscences 239 An advertisement for Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s Cheerful Yesterdays 250 This page intentionally left blank ...