"A true friend of the cause" : Lafayette and the antislavery movement
2016
923.544 L161duhl 2016 MB
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Title
"A true friend of the cause" : Lafayette and the antislavery movement
Variant Title
Lafayette and the antislavery movement
Published
New York : Easton, PA : The Grolier Club ; Lafayette College, 2016.
Description
ix, 75 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Call Number
923.544 L161duhl 2016 MB
System Control No.
(OCoLC)971493699
Note
"A catalogue to accompany the exhibition "A true friend of the cause" : Lafayette and the antislavery movement, at the Grolier Club, December 7, 2016-February 4, 2017."
Edited by Olga Anna Duhl and Diane Windham Shaw.
Lafayette has received renewed attention for his multifaceted contributions in several areas, including international politics, diplomacy, the military, and the human rights movement. His sustained efforts deployed on both sides of the Atlantic on behalf of the abolition of slavery however are not widely known. This is the first public exhibition devoted to Lafayette's role as an international anti-slavery advocate--From the publisher.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Preface -- "I have been so long the friend of emancipation" -- Lafayette at Yorktown (1782): transformations and interpretations -- "The freedom of all the blacks on the plantation": Lafayette and his fight for emancipation in French Guiana, 1785-1802 -- Lafayette and the American abolitionists -- Checklist of the exhibition.
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Edited by Olga Anna Duhl and Diane Windham Shaw.
Lafayette has received renewed attention for his multifaceted contributions in several areas, including international politics, diplomacy, the military, and the human rights movement. His sustained efforts deployed on both sides of the Atlantic on behalf of the abolition of slavery however are not widely known. This is the first public exhibition devoted to Lafayette's role as an international anti-slavery advocate--From the publisher.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Preface -- "I have been so long the friend of emancipation" -- Lafayette at Yorktown (1782): transformations and interpretations -- "The freedom of all the blacks on the plantation": Lafayette and his fight for emancipation in French Guiana, 1785-1802 -- Lafayette and the American abolitionists -- Checklist of the exhibition.
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