Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

The Magnificent Reverend Peter Thomas Stanford, Transatlantic Reformer and Race Man

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Born into slavery in Hampton County, Virginia, orphaned soon thereafter, and raised for almost two years among Native Americans, the charismatic Rev. Peter Thomas Stanford (c. 1860–May 20, 1909) rose from humble and challenging beginnings to emerge as an inventive and passionate activist and educator who championed social justice. During the post- Reconstruction era and early twentieth century, Stanford traversed the United States, Canada, and England advocating for the rights of African Americans, including access to educational opportunities; attainment of the full rights and privileges of citizenship; protections from racial violence, social stereotyping, and a predatory legal system; and recognition of the artistic contributions that have shaped national culture and earned global renown. His imprint on working-class urban residents, Afro-Canadian settlements, and African American communities survives in the institutions he led and the works that presented his imaginative, literate, ardent, and often comic voice.With a reflection by Highgate Baptist Church’s former pastor, Rev. Dr. Paul Walker, this collection highlights Stanford’s writings: sermons, lectures, newspaper columns, entertainments, and memoirs. Editors Barbara McCaskill and Sidonia Serafini annotate his life and work throughout the volume, placing him within the context of his peers as a writer and editor. As an American expatriate, Stanford was seminal in redirecting antislavery activism into an international antilynching movement and a global campaign to dismantle slavery and slave trading. This book squarely inserts this influential thinker and activist in the African American literary canon.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2020-06-15
Mått: 152 x 229 x 32 mm
Vikt: 626 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 312
Förlag: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820356556

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Barbara McCaskill (Editor) BARBARA McCASKILL is a professor of English at the University of Georgia, coorganizer of the Genius of Phillis Wheatley Peters Project, and associate academic director of the Willson Center for Humanities & Arts. She is the coeditor of Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: African American Literature and Culture, 1877–1919 and author of Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory (Georgia). McCaskill edited and wrote an introduction to the 1860 memoir Running A Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (also Georgia).Sidonia Serafini (Editor) SIDONIA SERAFINI is assistant professor of English at Appalachian State University. With Barbara McCaskill, she coedited The Magnificent Reverend Peter Thomas Stanford, Transatlantic Reformer and Race Man (Georgia). Her essays have appeared in The Southern Quarterly, Women’s Studies, The Journal of Transatlantic Studies, American Periodicals, and American Literature. Her work has been supported and/or recognized by the Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Council on Public History, and Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council. She lives in North Carolina.

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Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and Peter Thomas Stanford helped champion the cause for civil rights, racial justice, and reform in nineteenth-century America. However, only two of their names appear in history books—until now. The Magnificent Reverend Peter Thomas Stanford, Transatlantic Reformer and Race Man is a powerfully written and deeply inspiring book. It is a game-changing story of an incredible African American leader.

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