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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... claim that many blacks had ransacked white houses and exploited white sickness for mone- tary gain ? Black writers like Allen and Jones understood the need to fill this void . From the 1790s onward , black activists self - consciously ...
... claim that many blacks had ransacked white houses and exploited white sickness for mone- tary gain ? Black writers like Allen and Jones understood the need to fill this void . From the 1790s onward , black activists self - consciously ...
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... claim a pre - eminence in the learned world , that Africans are inferior to white men in the structure of both body and mind . " Early white abolitionists had been urging African Americans to concentrate not simply on virtuous habits ...
... claim a pre - eminence in the learned world , that Africans are inferior to white men in the structure of both body and mind . " Early white abolitionists had been urging African Americans to concentrate not simply on virtuous habits ...
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... claims his or her independent identity in a printed autobiography . As William Andrews has shown , black autobiographies were sometimes shaped by white editors and copyists , who might , for example , overemphasize religiosity as a ...
... claims his or her independent identity in a printed autobiography . As William Andrews has shown , black autobiographies were sometimes shaped by white editors and copyists , who might , for example , overemphasize religiosity as a ...
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... claims to freedom and justice for all.23 America's struggle for independence , and more precisely American Revolutionary ideology , decisively shaped the worldview of early pamphleteers . To begin with , the Revo- lution put slavery on ...
... claims to freedom and justice for all.23 America's struggle for independence , and more precisely American Revolutionary ideology , decisively shaped the worldview of early pamphleteers . To begin with , the Revo- lution put slavery on ...
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... claims about black inferiority and biblical support of slavery . Examining his biblical arguments , for example ... claim . Coker sublimates his black perspective into a scales - of - justice argument . And on that high plane ...
... claims about black inferiority and biblical support of slavery . Examining his biblical arguments , for example ... claim . Coker sublimates his black perspective into a scales - of - justice argument . And on that high plane ...
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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