{"product_id":"dismantling-slavery-nilgun-anadolu-okur-9781621902362","title":"Dismantling Slavery: Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Formation of the Abolitionist Discourse, 1841-1851","description":"\u003cp\u003e \"In her perceptive and instructive study of abolitionist discourse, Anadolu-Okur revisits the formative ten years of the Frederick Douglass-William Lloyd Garrison collaboration and friendship that did much to shape their abolitionist witness and to encourage a more direct abolitionist rhetorical style among an ever-widening compass of men and women activists and writers in America and England. In Anadolu-Okur's telling, the rhetorical relationships translated into radical thinking that transcended personal rivalries and reform priorities and transformed abolitionism. Anyone wanting to know the symbiosis of abolitionist style and substance will learn much from Anadolu-Okur's insights. She shows why words mattered, and still do.\" \u003cbr\u003e --Randall M. Miller, Saint Joseph's University \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1841, William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass formed a partnership that would last a decade and forever change the abolitionist movement. Throughout the stages of their extraordinary alliance, anti-slavery mobilization was accelerated, reaching its height between 1841 and 1851. Centering their arguments on emancipation, women's equality, and suffrage, the two men worked tirelessly to publicize and recruit for their cause. Their work initiated a new discourse of social reform and critique, positioning the abolition of slavery at the center of progressive social concerns throughout the first half of the nineteenth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDismantling Slavery \u003c\/i\u003eis the first book to address these two giants of abolition--Douglass and Garrison--simultaneously. While underscoring the evolution of abolitionist discourse, \u003ci\u003eDismantling Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e unveils the true nature of the friendship between Douglass and Garrison, a key ingredient often overlooked by scholars. Drawing on the writings, speeches, and experiences that shaped the two as abolitionists, Nilgün Anadolu-Okur's groundbreaking study is one account of the ways in which abolitionist discourse was shaped and put to the purposes of moral and democratic reforms. In addition to turning a close eye on the relationship between Douglass and Garrison, Anadolu-Okur also details significant developments that occurred in tandem among other abolitionists and activists of the era, making for a compelling account of this pivotal decade in American history, up until the dissolution of Garrison and Douglass's partnership. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDismantling Slavery \u003c\/i\u003erepresents a significant interdisciplinary contribution to the study of abolitionist discourse and will appeal to a wide range of nineteenth-century scholars. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNILGÜN ANADOLU-OKUR \u003c\/b\u003eis an associate professor of African American Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, where she specializes in African American literature, theater and the history of Underground Railroad. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eContemporary African American Theater: Afrocentricity in the Works of Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles Fuller\u003c\/i\u003e, and the editor of \u003ci\u003eEssays Interpreting Writings of Novelist Orhan Pamuk and Women, Islam, and Globalization in the Twenty-First Century.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nilgun Anadolu-Okur\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1621902366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781621902362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Tennessee Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/16\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.10d","brand":"Nilgun Anadolu-Okur","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47611789803775,"sku":"9781621902362","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_71773ce3-b520-47d2-ae37-5b0c20a5a9d5.jpg?v=1764516083","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dismantling-slavery-nilgun-anadolu-okur-9781621902362","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}