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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... called on his black brethren to frame their appeals carefully.35 But the advance of white supremacy , North and South , challenged this strategy of moral reform , and the call for equality within American culture took on new dimensions ...
... called on his black brethren to frame their appeals carefully.35 But the advance of white supremacy , North and South , challenged this strategy of moral reform , and the call for equality within American culture took on new dimensions ...
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... called on her brethren and sisters to organize into a potent protest bloc and then demand an end to racial subjection . Quite striking is Stewart's early public recognition of Walker - this at a time when even white reformers such as ...
... called on her brethren and sisters to organize into a potent protest bloc and then demand an end to racial subjection . Quite striking is Stewart's early public recognition of Walker - this at a time when even white reformers such as ...
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... called " militant " pamphleteers reformulated their understanding of America's racial dynamics . In 1837 , for example , Hosea Easton published “ A Treatise on the Intel- lectual Character and Civil and Political Condition of the ...
... called " militant " pamphleteers reformulated their understanding of America's racial dynamics . In 1837 , for example , Hosea Easton published “ A Treatise on the Intel- lectual Character and Civil and Political Condition of the ...
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... called on black Americans to form a separate national compact based on color and heritage as the only way to overcome American racial oppression . National self - determination was the principle that ruled the Western world , Delany ...
... called on black Americans to form a separate national compact based on color and heritage as the only way to overcome American racial oppression . National self - determination was the principle that ruled the Western world , Delany ...
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... called for , yet even they continued to address a public sphere composed primarily of white Americans . The absence of deference in the words of Walker , Garnet , and others did not render them separatists . It did not mean that their ...
... called for , yet even they continued to address a public sphere composed primarily of white Americans . The absence of deference in the words of Walker , Garnet , and others did not render them separatists . It did not mean that their ...
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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Common terms and phrases
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