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Notes on American Negro Reformers in Victorian Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2011

Clare Taylor
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During the middle years of the nineteenth century a significant number of American Negro reformers visited Britain. Their visits have not passed unnoticed. As J. H. Franklin has remarked, “More than a score of black abolitionists went to England, Scotland, France and Germany… Almost everywhere they were received with enthusiasm and were instrumental in linking up the humanitarian movement with various reform movements on both sides of the Atlantic.” Benjamin Quarles, furthermore, has commented on some of their work in Britain.

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Bulletin of the British Association for American Studies , Volume 2 , March 1961 , pp. 40 - 51
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Copyright © British Association for American Studies 1961

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