Moses Roper | |
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| Born | c. 1815 |
| Died | April 18, 1891 |
| Education | Hackney, University College London |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, lecturer |
Moses Roper (c. 1815 – April 15, 1891) was an African American abolitionist, author and orator. He wrote an influential narrative of his enslavement in the United States in his Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery and gave thousands of lectures in Great Britain and Ireland to inform the European public about the brutality of American slavery.[1]
- ^ "Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery". ISBN 0-486-42718-8, available online; Hannah-Rose Murray, Advocates of Freedom: African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020); F Sweeney and B Baker, 'Moses Roper, First Fugitive Slave Lecturer in Ireland, 1838' IJAS 9 (2020): http://ijas.iaas.ie/issue-9-sweeney-baker/; F Sweeney and B Baker, '"I am not a beggar". Moses Roper, Black Witness and the Lost Opportunity of British Abolitionism', Slavery and Abolition 2022, https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2022.2027656