Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, Phillip Lapsansky Routledge, 2013 M11 26 - 336 pages Between the Revolution and the Civil War, African-American writing became a prominent feature of both black protest culture and American public life. Although denied a political voice in national affairs, black authors produced a wide range of literature to project their views into the public sphere. Autobiographies and personal narratives told of slavery's horrors, newspapers railed against racism in its various forms, and poetry, novellas, reprinted sermons and speeches told tales of racial uplift and redemption. The editors examine the important and previously overlooked pamphleteering tradition and offer new insights into how and why the printed word became so important to black activists during this critical period. An introduction by the editors situates the pamphlets in their various social, economic and political contexts. This is the first book to capture the depth of black print culture before the Civil War by examining perhaps its most important form, the pamphlet. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 Absalom Jones and Richard Allen A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia 1794 | 33 |
2 Prince Hall A Charge 1797 | 45 |
3 Daniel Coker A Dialogue Between a Virginian and an African Minister 1810 | 53 |
4 James Forten Series of Letters by a Man of Colour 1813 | 67 |
5 Russell Parrott An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade 1814 | 75 |
6 Prince Saunders An Address before the Pennsylvania Augustine Society 1818 | 81 |
7 Robert Alexander Young Ethiopian Manifesto 1829 | 85 |
14 Henry Highland Garnet Address to the Slaves of the United States of America 1848 | 157 |
15 Proceedings of the National Convention of Colored People 1847 | 167 |
16 Report of the Proceedings of the Colored National Convention held in Cleveland 1848 | 179 |
17 John W Lewis Essay on the Character and Condition of the African Race 1852 | 191 |
18 Mary Ann Shadd A Plea for Emigration or Notes of Canada West 1852 | 199 |
19 Frederick Douglass et al Address to the People of the United States 1853 | 215 |
20 Martin Delany Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent 1854 | 227 |
21 William Wells Brown The History of the Haitian Revolution 1855 | 241 |
8 David Walker Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World 1829 1830 | 91 |
9 William Hamilton Address to the National Convention of 1834 1834 | 111 |
10 Elizabeth Wicks Address Delivered Before the African Female Benevolent Society of Troy1834 | 115 |
11 Maria W Stewart Productions 1835 | 123 |
12 Robert Purvis Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens Threatened with Disfranchisement to the People of Pennsylvania 1837 | 133 |
13 David Ruggles New York Committee of Vigilance for the Year 1837 together with Important Facts Relative to Their Proceedings 1837 | 145 |
22 Mary Still An Appeal to the Females of the African Methodist Episcopal Church 1857 | 255 |
23 J Theodore Holly A Vindication of the Capacity of the Negro for SelfGovernement and Civilized Progress 1857 | 263 |
24 Alexander Crummell The English Language in Liberia 1861 | 283 |
25 T Morris Chester Negro SelfRespect and Pride of Race 1862 | 305 |
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