Heroic Exile: The Transatlantic Development of Frederick Douglass 1845-1847"
By Benjamin Soskis
Benjamin Soskis’s Yale University senior thesis “Heroic Exile: The Transatlantic Development of Frederick Douglass 1845–1847,” was awarded the 1998 Wrexham Prize for the best senior essay in the field of humanities.
This hypertext essay, developed by the Gilder Lehrman Center, reproduces the Soskis essay as well as over fifty of Frederick Douglass’s speeches, letters and articles written during his stay in the British Isles. This project is meant to bring this historical research to a wider audience and to present in a new fashion a collection of material by Frederick Douglass previously unavailable online.
Contents
- From Bondage to Freedom: The Making of an Abolitionist
- The New Life: The Making of a British Celebrity
- The Least Lovable of the Abolitionists: The Challenges of Celebrity
- Independence and the Representational Crises
- The Temptation of the New Life: Douglass’s Doubleness
- Following The North Star: Douglass’s Return Home
- Sources
- Bibliography