Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland, 1845-1895

University of Edinburgh

Hannah-Rose Murray is an Early Career Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on recovering and amplifying formerly enslaved African American testimony in the British Isles, including forgotten slave narratives, oratory and visual performance, and her digital mapping project (www.frederickdouglassinbritain.com) highlights their experiences and lectures in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. She has organized numerous community events including talks, performances, podcasts, plays and exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic, and conducts both in-person and virtual walking tours of Black abolitionist sites in London. Her first book, Advocates of Freedom: African American Abolitionism in the British Isles was published in September 2020 with Cambridge University Press.

John Kaufman-McKivigan is the Mary O’Brien Gibson Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis as well as the Editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers. He is author of numerous books and scholarly articles on abolitionism and other aspects of American reform history. He is currently preparing a study of Frederick Douglass’ participation in the overlapping movements for radial political, social, and economic change in the early years of Reconstruction