Nineteenth-Century African American Speeches in Britain and Ireland

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.
All these human rights orators testify to their lifelong ‘fight for freedom’ ac...