Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860Between 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. |
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The nation's new constitution guaranteed that masters would have a right to retrieve fugitive slaves throughout the Union, the overseas slave trade functioned legally until 1808 (South Carolina imported forty thousand African slaves ...
The nation's new constitution guaranteed that masters would have a right to retrieve fugitive slaves throughout the Union, the overseas slave trade functioned legally until 1808 (South Carolina imported forty thousand African slaves ...
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... a glorious story of freedom (from William Penn's goal of creating a Utopian colony to the forming of Pennsylvania's race-neutral constitution in 1790), and that this state history was part of a broader national struggle of freedom.
... a glorious story of freedom (from William Penn's goal of creating a Utopian colony to the forming of Pennsylvania's race-neutral constitution in 1790), and that this state history was part of a broader national struggle of freedom.
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The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the very notion that “all men are created equal”— surely, Forten observed in his “Letters,” these were meant to be expansive rather than restrictive documents. They embraced “the Indian ...
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the very notion that “all men are created equal”— surely, Forten observed in his “Letters,” these were meant to be expansive rather than restrictive documents. They embraced “the Indian ...
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Published in 1837 to protest the new Pennsylvania constitution's disenfranchisement of black voters, the “Appeal” took aim at white statesmen who turned their backs on the Quaker State's liberal racial history. Like his father-in- law, ...
Published in 1837 to protest the new Pennsylvania constitution's disenfranchisement of black voters, the “Appeal” took aim at white statesmen who turned their backs on the Quaker State's liberal racial history. Like his father-in- law, ...
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Contents
A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful | |
A Charge 1797 | |
A Dialogue Between a Virginian and an African Minister 1810 | |
An Address before the Pennsylvania Augustine Society 1818 | |
Address to the National Convention of 1834 1834 | |
Productions 1835 | |
New York Committee of Vigilance for the Year 1837 together with | |
Proceedings of the National Convention of Colored People 1847 | |
Report of the Proceedings of the Colored National Convention Cleveland 1848 held | |
Address to the People of the United States 1853 1857 | |
Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent 1854 | |
The History of the Haitian Revolution 1855 | |
An Appeal to the Females of the African Methodist Episcopal Church | |
The English Language in Liberia 1861 | |
Debate over Garnets Address to the Slaves of the United States | |
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Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest ... Richard Newman,Patrick Rael,Phillip Lapsansky No preview available - 2001 |
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