In 1853, William G. Allen, the Coloured Professor of Classics at New York Central College, became engaged to Mary King, a student at the coeducational, racially integrated school and daughter of a local white abolitionist minister. Rumors of their betrothal incited a mob of several hundred men armed with tar, feathers, poles, and an empty barrel spiked with shingle nails. Allen and King narrowly escaped with their lives, married in New York City, and then fled as fugitives to England and Ireland. Their love story and brave resistance were recorded in engrossing detail by Allen in two pamphlets-The American Prejudice Against Color: An Authentic Narrative, Showing How Easily the Nation Got into An Uproar (1853) and A Short Personal Narrative (1860). Reproduced here in their entirety, Allen's forthright, eloquent, and ironic accounts, which include excerpts from abolitionist and anti-abolitionist newspaper reports about the incident, drew renewed threats against the exiled pair as well as support from the couple's circle of anti-slavery friends and allies, a diverse group including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Beriah Green, Gerrit Smith, Reverend Samuel J. May, and George Thompson. The
- ISBN:
- 9781555535452
- 9781555535452
- Category:
- Social discrimination & inequality
- Publication Date:
- 07-11-2002
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- University Press of New England
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Dimensions (mm):
- 215.9x139.7mm
- Weight:
- 0.23kg
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