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Item Autographs for Freedom and Reaching a New Abolitionist Audience(University of Chicago Press, 2017-01-01) McKivigan, John R.; Pattillo, Rebecca A.; History, School of Liberal ArtsScholars correctly appreciate Frederick Douglass’s novella The Heroic Slave (1853) as an important early work of African American literature and as a significant indicator of its author’s endorsement of violent tactics to end slavery in the United States.1 This essay will literally step back farther from the text of Douglass’s only fictional work, and examine The Heroic Slave as a component of a larger project—the gift book Autographs for Freedom—edited by Douglass and his closest ally in the early 1850s, British abolitionist Julia Griffiths. The thirty-nine pieces of short fiction, poetry, essays, and correspondence in the 263-page anthology were envisioned as tools to construct a wider and politically more potent antislavery alliance than any in which the two abolitionists had previously participated. In the diverse composition of its collection of authors and antislavery themes, Autographs for Freedom was both a cultural and political tool designed by Douglass and Griffiths to help assemble a more powerful antislavery coalition from the volume’s reading audience.Item Frederick Douglass, Slum Landlord?(Institute for American Thought, 2024-02) McKivigan, John R.; Duvall, Jeffery A.; History, School of Liberal ArtsItem Frederick Douglass’s Foray into Fiction: Considering the Context of Recent Work on The Heroic Slave(University of Chicago Press, 2017-01-01) McKivigan, John R.; Schultz, Jane E.; History, School of Liberal ArtsIn February 2015, the Frederick Douglass Papers, a documentary editing project at work since 1973 to collect, edit, and disseminate the various works of Frederick Douglass, the most influential African American of the 19th century, published the first-ever scholarly edition of Douglass’s sole work of fiction, his 1853 novella, The Heroic Slave. Edited by Robert S. Levine of the University of Maryland, John Stauffer of Harvard University, and John McKivigan, the longtime editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers, based since 1998 at Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis (IUPUI), and published by the Yale University Press, The Critical and Cultural Edition of The Heroic Slave provides, for the first time, an authoritative text, along with assorted contemporary and scholarly documents to help readers engage the novella in its historical, biographical, and literary contexts. Those documents assist readers to better understand what Douglass chose to emphasize and leave out in his telling of the story of the 1841 slave revolt aboard the brig Creole. The Heroic Slave has emerged as a major text in Douglass’s canon, a novella that continues to fascinate readers with its compelling vision of reform, black revolution, and the quest for human freedom.Item Frederick Douglass’s Rhetorical Legacy(Taylor & Francis, 2018) Rossing, Jonathan P.; McKivigan, John R.; History, School of Liberal ArtsItem Frederick Douglass’s “New Departure” in the Reconstruction Era Woman Suffrage Movement(IUPUI Institute for American Thought, 2022-12-19) McKivigan, John R.; Schwartz, Alex; History, School of Liberal ArtsItem Historical Film and the Assassination of President Lincoln: The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) and The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977)(2002) Savarino, Malia Dorothy; Coleman, Annie Gilbert; Snodgrass, Michael; McKivigan, John R.Item Lesser Glory: The Civil War Military Career of Charles Remond Douglass(Institute for American Thought, 2021-12) McKivigan, John R.; History, School of Liberal ArtsItem "The Most Wonderful Man that America Has Ever Produced": Frederick Douglass and His Contemporary Biographers(IUPUI, 2020-10-19) McKivigan, John R.; History, School of Liberal ArtsItem Mysterious Saucer Sighted! End of World Imminent? American Flying Saucer Belief and Resistance to the Cold War Order 1947-1970(2003) Gulyas, Aaron John; Coleman, Annie Gilbert; McKivigan, John R.; Cramer, KevinItem “A New Vocation before Me”: Frederick Douglass's Post-Civil War Lyceum Career(Taylor & Francis, 2018) McKivigan, John R.; History, School of Liberal ArtsThis article examines the oratorical strategies adopted by Frederick Douglass in the late 1860s and early 1870s when he joined the ranks of professional lyceum speakers. Douglass's speaking shifted away from the long-established topics of slavery and civil rights to appeal to a broader audience. Douglass also shifted from a spontaneous speaking style, honed in years of abolitionist campaigning, to rely upon written texts prepared in advance and delivered repeatedly. A close analysis of those lyceum addresses, newspaper reports of their delivery, and Douglass's personal correspondence reveal that he retained many elements of his older performance style and facilely adapted his topic, sometimes in mid-lecture, to suit many audiences' demand to hear him address the “race question.”