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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... better book . Patrick Rael would like to thank Bowdoin College for financial assistance from its Faculty Research Fund , and acknowledge the research assistance of Eric Henry , Court- ney Mongell , and Tina Nadeau . He is grateful for ...
... better book . Patrick Rael would like to thank Bowdoin College for financial assistance from its Faculty Research Fund , and acknowledge the research assistance of Eric Henry , Court- ney Mongell , and Tina Nadeau . He is grateful for ...
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... better . They understood that print offered blacks the ears of a broader public , one that might include sympathetic whites . An unknowing South Carolina editor discovered this in 1790 , when he printed the appeal of a slave named ...
... better . They understood that print offered blacks the ears of a broader public , one that might include sympathetic whites . An unknowing South Carolina editor discovered this in 1790 , when he printed the appeal of a slave named ...
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... better foundation of protest than American ideals — and no better audience than white statesmen and citizens at large.3 34 Robert Purvis's " Appeal of Forty Thousand ” similarly embodied this push for black rights in America . Published ...
... better foundation of protest than American ideals — and no better audience than white statesmen and citizens at large.3 34 Robert Purvis's " Appeal of Forty Thousand ” similarly embodied this push for black rights in America . Published ...
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Contents
ABSALOM JONES AND RICHARD ALLEN | 32 |
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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