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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... death in 1830 , old editions circulated in black communities . Garnet found the words fresh and revolutionary ; he vowed to reprint the pamphlet — to further preserve Walker's legacy . Similar references to pamphlets appear often in the ...
... death in 1830 , old editions circulated in black communities . Garnet found the words fresh and revolutionary ; he vowed to reprint the pamphlet — to further preserve Walker's legacy . Similar references to pamphlets appear often in the ...
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... death itself will not deter her . " Many will suffer for pleading the cause of oppressed Africa , " she proclaims , " and I shall glory in being one of her martyrs . " 42 Both Walker and Stewart advocated new definitions of moral uplift ...
... death itself will not deter her . " Many will suffer for pleading the cause of oppressed Africa , " she proclaims , " and I shall glory in being one of her martyrs . " 42 Both Walker and Stewart advocated new definitions of moral uplift ...
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... death and that the context of the mid - 1830s ( with a newly aggressive and racially integrated abolition movement , urban rioting against racial reformers , and fallout from Nat Turner's slave rebellion of 1831 ) mitigated against ...
... death and that the context of the mid - 1830s ( with a newly aggressive and racially integrated abolition movement , urban rioting against racial reformers , and fallout from Nat Turner's slave rebellion of 1831 ) mitigated against ...
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... deaths . But the pamphlet transcended this theme by attacking the intellectual foundation of Carey's argument . Blacks were not the problem , as he claimed , slavery was ; absent this institution , they could achieve all that whites had ...
... deaths . But the pamphlet transcended this theme by attacking the intellectual foundation of Carey's argument . Blacks were not the problem , as he claimed , slavery was ; absent this institution , they could achieve all that whites had ...
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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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