Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- List of Figures and Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Dramatis Personae
- Part I The Voyage
- Part II Dark, Polluted Gold
- Part III Douglass, Scott and Burns
- Part IV Measuring Heads, Reading Faces
- Part V The Voyage Home
- Part VI The Affinity Scot
- Appendix I Speaking Itinerary, 1846
- Appendix II Maps
- Bibliography
- Index
Part V - The Voyage Home
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- List of Figures and Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Dramatis Personae
- Part I The Voyage
- Part II Dark, Polluted Gold
- Part III Douglass, Scott and Burns
- Part IV Measuring Heads, Reading Faces
- Part V The Voyage Home
- Part VI The Affinity Scot
- Appendix I Speaking Itinerary, 1846
- Appendix II Maps
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
I go, turning my back upon the ease, comfort, and respectability which I might maintain even here, ignorant as I am. Still, I will go back, for the sake of my brethren.
Frederick Douglass, ‘Farewell speech’ at the London Tavern, 30 March 1847
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- Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846Living an Antislavery Life, pp. 237 - 238Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2018