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

McKivigan, John

 
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
Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996

Synopsis

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 Furthermore, using Redpath's unpublished correspondence, McKivigan verifies his residence in southern communities at the times these interviews were reported to have taken place, making The Roving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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À propos de l?auteur

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 (Cornell, 1984).

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Éditeur
Pennsylvania State University Press
Date d'édition
1996
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0271026022
ISBN 13 
9780271026022
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
388
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0271015330 ISBN 13 :  9780271015330
Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996
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