{"id":63114,"date":"2022-02-17T01:37:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T01:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63114"},"modified":"2022-02-20T20:27:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T20:27:56","slug":"i-am-not-a-beggar-moses-roper-black-witness-and-the-lost-opportunity-of-british-abolitionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63114","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I am not a beggar\u2019: Moses Roper, Black Witness and the Lost Opportunity of British Abolitionism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018I am not a beggar\u2019: Moses Roper, Black Witness and the Lost Opportunity of British Abolitionism<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies<\/a>
\nPublished online 2022-02-09
\nDOI: 10.1080\/0144039X.2022.2027656<\/a><\/p>\n

Fionnghuala Sweeney<\/strong><\/a>, Reader in American and Black Atlantic Literatures
\nNewcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n

Bruce E. Baker<\/strong><\/a>, Historian
\nPaxton, Scotland, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n

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Scholars have long known the Narrative<\/em><\/a> of North Carolina<\/a> writer and activist Moses Roper<\/a>, first published in London<\/a> in 1837. This article uses newly discovered sources and the multiple editions of the Narrative<\/em> to reconstitute the biography of this first fugitive slave abolitionist to lecture in Ireland<\/a> and Britain<\/a>. It explores Roper\u2019s interactions with British abolitionists, especially prominent Baptist ministers Francis A. Cox<\/a> and Thomas Price<\/a>. Roper\u2019s indisputable witness to the horrors of American slavery played a crucial role in refocusing British and Irish attention from the completed task of West Indian emancipation to the looming work yet to be done in the United States<\/a>. Supporting Roper\u2019s independence, in both his campaigning and his creation of his own British family, proved too much for the British abolitionist establishment, resulting in Roper being cast out and a major opportunity to lead on matters of transatlantic moral consequence lost. More significantly, African American voice was denied its authority and a platform from which to speak.<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018I am not a beggar\u2019: Moses Roper, Black Witness and the Lost Opportunity of British Abolitionism Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies Published online 2022-02-09 DOI: 10.1080\/0144039X.2022.2027656 Fionnghuala Sweeney, Reader in American and Black Atlantic Literatures Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Bruce E. Baker, Historian Paxton, Scotland, United Kingdom […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,459,8,820,6940,10,20],"tags":[33045,33041,33040,3707,33043,33044,246,33042,1008,10563],"class_list":["post-63114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-history","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-slavery","category-uk","category-usa","tag-bruce-baker","tag-bruce-e-baker","tag-fionnghuala-sweeney","tag-florida","tag-francis-a-cox","tag-francis-augustus-cox","tag-ireland","tag-moses-roper","tag-slavery-abolition","tag-slavery-abolition-a-journal-of-slave-and-post-slave-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63114"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63151,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63114\/revisions\/63151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}