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Barbara McCaskill and Sidonia Serafini have given us a gift. Thismeticulously researched volume introduces us to the fascinating writings of the Reverend Peter Thomas Stanford, a prominent nineteenth-centuryblack intellectual and activist who had--until now--been lost to history. Tracing his career across the Atlantic from the United States toCanada to Great Britain and back, McCaskill and Serafini have crafted an exciting biography of a man whose life and activism exemplifies the complexity and dynamism of African American political engagement and literary production from emancipation through theearly years of the twentieth century.--Erica L. Ball author of To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class McCaskill and Serafini help readers understand Stanford's life and work in connection to more familiar figures, such as Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, David Walker and Henry HighlandGarnet, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Amanda Smith, William Wells Brown and Henry Box Brown, as well as P. T. Barnum. Putting Stanford's publications in readers' hands and providing thorough and dynamic context, they have given a gift that will keep on giving.--Koritha Mitchell author of Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930 Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and Peter Thomas Stanford helped champion the cause for civil rights, racial justice, and reform in nineteenth-century America. However, only two of their names appear in history books--until now. The Magnificent Reverend Peter Thomas Stanford, Transatlantic Reformer and Race Man is a powerfully written and deeply inspiring book. It is a game-changing story of an incredible African American leader.--Talitha L. LeFlouria author of Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South

"Barbara McCaskill and Sidonia Serafini have given us a gift. Thismeticulously researched volume introduces us to the fascinating writings of the Reverend Peter Thomas Stanford, a prominent nineteenth-centuryblack intellectual and activist who had--until now--been lost to history. Tracing his career across the Atlantic from the United States toCanada to Great Britain and back, McCaskill and Serafini have crafted an exciting biography of a man whose life and activism exemplifies the complexity and dynamism of African American political engagement and literary production from emancipation through theearly years of the twentieth century.--Erica L. Ball ""author of To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class"" McCaskill and Serafini help readers understand Stanford's life and work in connection to more familiar figures, such as Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, David Walker and Henry HighlandGarnet, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Amanda Smith, William Wells Brown and Henry Box Brown, as well as P. T. Barnum. Putting Stanford's publications in readers' hands and providing thorough and dynamic context, they have given a gift that will keep on giving.--Koritha Mitchell ""author of Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930"" Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and Peter Thomas Stanford helped champion the cause for civil rights, racial justice, and reform in nineteenth-century America. However, only two of their names appear in history books--until now. The Magnificent Reverend Peter Thomas Stanford, Transatlantic Reformer and Race Man is a powerfully written and deeply inspiring book. It is a game-changing story of an incredible African American leader.--Talitha L. LeFlouria ""author of Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South"""

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Barbara McCaskill (Editor) BARBARA McCASKILL is a professor of English at the University of Georgia, coorganizer of the Genius of Phillis Wheatley Peters Project, and associate academic director of the Willson Center for Humanities & Arts. She is the coeditor of Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: African American Literature and Culture, 1877–1919 and author of Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory (Georgia). McCaskill edited and wrote an introduction to the 1860 memoir Running 1,000 Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (also Georgia). Sidonia Serafini (Editor) SIDONIA SERAFINI is an assistant professor of English at Georgia College & State University. Her essays have appeared in Southern Quarterly, Women’s Studies, and the Journal of Transatlantic Studies, with essays forthcoming in American Periodicals and American Literature. Serafini is coediting a scholarly edition of the slave narrative of John Brown to be published with Georgia.

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