Hannah-Rose Murray
FORTHCOMING: Daguerreotyped On My Heart: African American Visual Culture and Performance in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Liverpool University Press, 2025)
Anthology: co-authored with Prof. Celeste-Marie Bernier, African American Narratives in Britain and Ireland (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
Anthology: co-authored with Prof. Celeste-Marie Bernier, African American Speeches in Britain and Ireland (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
Book: Advocates of Freedom: African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Book: (with Prof. Jack R. McKivigan) Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland 1845-1895 (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
In September 2019, I began an Early Career Leverhulme Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh. My research focuses on recovering and amplifying formerly enslaved African American testimony (including forgotten slave narratives, oratory and visual performance), specifically focusing on their transatlantic journeys to Britain between the 1830s and the 1890s. I have created a website (www.frederickdouglassinbritain.com) dedicated to their experiences and has mapped their speaking locations across Britain, showing how Black men and women travelled far and wide, from large towns to small fishing villages, to raise awareness of American slavery. I have organized numerous community events including talks, performances, podcasts, plays and exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic, and my first book, Advocates of Freedom: African American Transatlantic Abolitionism, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.
I have mapped black abolitionist speaking locations on the first publicly available website - www.frederickdouglassinbritain.com
Anthology: co-authored with Prof. Celeste-Marie Bernier, African American Narratives in Britain and Ireland (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
Anthology: co-authored with Prof. Celeste-Marie Bernier, African American Speeches in Britain and Ireland (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
Book: Advocates of Freedom: African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Book: (with Prof. Jack R. McKivigan) Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland 1845-1895 (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
In September 2019, I began an Early Career Leverhulme Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh. My research focuses on recovering and amplifying formerly enslaved African American testimony (including forgotten slave narratives, oratory and visual performance), specifically focusing on their transatlantic journeys to Britain between the 1830s and the 1890s. I have created a website (www.frederickdouglassinbritain.com) dedicated to their experiences and has mapped their speaking locations across Britain, showing how Black men and women travelled far and wide, from large towns to small fishing villages, to raise awareness of American slavery. I have organized numerous community events including talks, performances, podcasts, plays and exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic, and my first book, Advocates of Freedom: African American Transatlantic Abolitionism, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.
I have mapped black abolitionist speaking locations on the first publicly available website - www.frederickdouglassinbritain.com
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Reproduces speeches that have not previously been transcribed or published in a contemporary scholarly edition
Includes an in-depth introductory essay, author biographies, annotations, and detailed bibliographies to provide specialist and general audiences with the literary, political, historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts that were fundamental to nineteenth century Black transatlantic literary production
These 80 speeches constitute radical declarations of Black artistic and political independence by bearing witness to each orator’s determination to resist white racist attempts to script, edit, and censor Black acts and arts of imaginative cultural production
This is the first anthology of eighty speeches by forty-two world famous and under-researched African American freedom fighters, liberators and human rights campaigners living and working in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England in the nineteenth century. Their pioneering and revolutionary works are supported by an in-depth introductory essay, author biographies, scholarly annotations and detailed bibliographies
Includes an in-depth introductory essay, author biographies, annotations, and detailed bibliographies in order to provide specialist and general audiences with the literary, political, historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts that were fundamental to nineteenth century Black transatlantic literary production
The nineteen texts constitute radical declarations of Black artistic and political independence by bearing witness to each author’s determination to resist white racist attempts to script, edit and censor Black acts and arts of imaginative literary production
This is the first scholarly anthology of nineteen narratives written by African American authors and published in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth century.
The only monograph and anthology to focus on Frederick Douglass’s relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture
Provides a monograph-length introduction focusing on Douglass’ experiences in the British Isles, from his first visit in 1845, to 1859 and 1886 (the latter two visits have received scant attention from scholars in comparison to his first visit in 1845)
Provides specialist and general audiences with political and cultural insights into Frederick Douglass’ transatlantic visits
Presents speeches, letters and poetry in relation to Douglass’ visit (including his own testimony) that have never been published before
Examines Douglass’ impact on British culture with a section on songs, images and poetry written in response to his lectures
Radically updates Douglass’ speaking locations in Britain, which is printed alongside a visual map of these locations
Provides several images new to scholarship (for instance, the ticket to one of Douglass’ lectures in Cambridgeshire)
This critical edition documents Frederick Douglass’s relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture. With an unprecedented and comprehensive 60,000-word introduction that places the speeches, letters, poetry and images printed here into context, the sources provide extraordinary insight into the myriad performative techniques Douglass used to win support for the causes of emancipation and human rights.
Reproduces speeches that have not previously been transcribed or published in a contemporary scholarly edition
Includes an in-depth introductory essay, author biographies, annotations, and detailed bibliographies to provide specialist and general audiences with the literary, political, historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts that were fundamental to nineteenth century Black transatlantic literary production
These 80 speeches constitute radical declarations of Black artistic and political independence by bearing witness to each orator’s determination to resist white racist attempts to script, edit, and censor Black acts and arts of imaginative cultural production
This is the first anthology of eighty speeches by forty-two world famous and under-researched African American freedom fighters, liberators and human rights campaigners living and working in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England in the nineteenth century. Their pioneering and revolutionary works are supported by an in-depth introductory essay, author biographies, scholarly annotations and detailed bibliographies
Includes an in-depth introductory essay, author biographies, annotations, and detailed bibliographies in order to provide specialist and general audiences with the literary, political, historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts that were fundamental to nineteenth century Black transatlantic literary production
The nineteen texts constitute radical declarations of Black artistic and political independence by bearing witness to each author’s determination to resist white racist attempts to script, edit and censor Black acts and arts of imaginative literary production
This is the first scholarly anthology of nineteen narratives written by African American authors and published in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth century.
The only monograph and anthology to focus on Frederick Douglass’s relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture
Provides a monograph-length introduction focusing on Douglass’ experiences in the British Isles, from his first visit in 1845, to 1859 and 1886 (the latter two visits have received scant attention from scholars in comparison to his first visit in 1845)
Provides specialist and general audiences with political and cultural insights into Frederick Douglass’ transatlantic visits
Presents speeches, letters and poetry in relation to Douglass’ visit (including his own testimony) that have never been published before
Examines Douglass’ impact on British culture with a section on songs, images and poetry written in response to his lectures
Radically updates Douglass’ speaking locations in Britain, which is printed alongside a visual map of these locations
Provides several images new to scholarship (for instance, the ticket to one of Douglass’ lectures in Cambridgeshire)
This critical edition documents Frederick Douglass’s relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture. With an unprecedented and comprehensive 60,000-word introduction that places the speeches, letters, poetry and images printed here into context, the sources provide extraordinary insight into the myriad performative techniques Douglass used to win support for the causes of emancipation and human rights.