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. |
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... South . Nonetheless , print assumed disproportionate importance in black protest circles by the early 1800s . The rise of print culture among blacks occurred in a society with a rapidly expanding culture of letters . African Americans ...
... South . Nonetheless , print assumed disproportionate importance in black protest circles by the early 1800s . The rise of print culture among blacks occurred in a society with a rapidly expanding culture of letters . African Americans ...
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... South Carolina in the early 1830s , alarming both Northern and Southern politicians . Similarly , slave narratives could be found in parts of the slave South , particularly cities with larger concentrations of free blacks . 10 Blacks ...
... South Carolina in the early 1830s , alarming both Northern and Southern politicians . Similarly , slave narratives could be found in parts of the slave South , particularly cities with larger concentrations of free blacks . 10 Blacks ...
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... South Carolina editor discovered this in 1790 , when he printed the appeal of a slave named " Yambo . " Writing in the Columbia Herald to convince slaveholders that harsh treatment of slaves worked against masters ' economic interests ...
... South Carolina editor discovered this in 1790 , when he printed the appeal of a slave named " Yambo . " Writing in the Columbia Herald to convince slaveholders that harsh treatment of slaves worked against masters ' economic interests ...
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... ( South Carolina imported forty thousand African slaves between 1800 and 1807 ) , new slave states such as Tennessee , Kentucky , Alabama , and later Missouri entered the Union , and the domestic slave trade grew , as many Northern ...
... ( South Carolina imported forty thousand African slaves between 1800 and 1807 ) , new slave states such as Tennessee , Kentucky , Alabama , and later Missouri entered the Union , and the domestic slave trade grew , as many Northern ...
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... South , challenged this strategy of moral reform , and the call for equality within American culture took on new dimensions in the post - 1830s period . Increasingly , pamphleteers rejected efforts to appeal to whites ' better natures ...
... South , challenged this strategy of moral reform , and the call for equality within American culture took on new dimensions in the post - 1830s period . Increasingly , pamphleteers rejected efforts to appeal to whites ' better natures ...
Contents
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A Charge 1797 | 45 |
JAMES FORTEN | 66 |
PRINCE SAUNDERS | 80 |
WILLIAM HAMILTON | 110 |
Productions 1835 | 123 |
DAVID RUGGLES | 144 |
Proceedings of the National Convention | 166 |
JOHN W LEWIS | 190 |
FREDERICK DOUGLASS ET AL | 214 |
WILLIAM WELLS BROWN | 240 |
MARY STILL | 254 |
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL | 282 |
T MORRIS CHESTER | 304 |
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