BEATING AGAINST THE BARRIERS: The Lives of Six Nineteenth-Century Afro-Americans. de Blackett, R. J. M - (1989)

New York:: Cornell University Press,, (1989). Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. 1st trade paperback printing. Studies of six African American abolitionists all of whom persevered in the face of staggering oppresion: the fugitive slave Revered James W.C. Pennington, church leader and anti-slavery orator, recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University of Heidelberg; former Georgia slaves William and Ellen Craft who spent 19 years in exile as part of the British abolitionist movement; Jamaican born Robert Campbell, editor, author and businessman; North Carolina slave John Sella Martin, who was sold several times before escaping to the North; and New York born William Howard Day, newpaper publisher, political organizer and educator. Illustrated. Selected bibliography. Index. xviii, 417 pp.