{"product_id":"the-magnificent-reverend-peter-thomas-stanford-transatlantic-reformer-and-race-man-9780820367071","title":"The Magnificent Reverend Peter Thomas Stanford, Transatlantic Reformer and Race Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn into slavery in Hampton County, Virginia, orphaned soon thereafter, and raised for almost two years among Native Americans, the charismatic Rev. Peter Thomas Stanford (c. 1860-May 20, 1909) rose from humble and challenging beginnings to emerge as an inventive and passionate activist and educator who championed social justice. During the post- Reconstruction era and early twentieth century, Stanford traversed the United States, Canada, and England advocating for the rights of African Americans, including access to educational opportunities; attainment of the full rights and privileges of citizenship; protections from racial violence, social stereotyping, and a predatory legal system; and recognition of the artistic contributions that have shaped national culture and earned global renown. His imprint on working-class urban residents, Afro-Canadian settlements, and African American communities survives in the institutions he led and the works that presented his imaginative, literate, ardent, and often comic voice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith a reflection by Highgate Baptist Church's former pastor, Rev. Dr. Paul Walker, this collection highlights Stanford's writings: sermons, lectures, newspaper columns, entertainments, and memoirs. Editors Barbara McCaskill and Sidonia Serafini annotate his life and work throughout the volume, placing him within the context of his peers as a writer and editor. As an American expatriate, Stanford was seminal in redirecting antislavery activism into an international antilynching movement and a global campaign to dismantle slavery and slave trading. This book squarely inserts this influential thinker and activist in the African American literary canon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara McCaskill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820367071\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara McCaskill (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u0026amp; Arts. She is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003ePost-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: African American Literature and Culture, 1877-1919 \u003c\/i\u003eand author of \u003ci\u003eLove, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory\u003c\/i\u003e (Georgia). McCaskill edited and wrote an introduction to the 1860 memoir \u003ci\u003eRunning 1,000 Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery \u003c\/i\u003e(also Georgia). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSidonia Serafini (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SIDONIA SERAFINI is an assistant professor of English at Georgia College \u0026amp; State University. Her essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eSouthern Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWomen's Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Transatlantic Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, with essays forthcoming in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Periodicals\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/i\u003e. Serafini is coediting a scholarly edition of the slave narrative of John Brown to be published with Georgia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43978726375539,"sku":"9.78082E+12","price":45.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_bcf0b829-85a5-4218-aa96-8ec0660e955c.jpg?v=1760534964","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-magnificent-reverend-peter-thomas-stanford-transatlantic-reformer-and-race-man-9780820367071","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}