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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... duties of [ any ] spirited , noble , and generous American freeman . " 15 " Africanus , " like later slave narrators and generations of black pamphleteers , made his mark . Other white writers were astonished - both that a black man ...
... duties of [ any ] spirited , noble , and generous American freeman . " 15 " Africanus , " like later slave narrators and generations of black pamphleteers , made his mark . Other white writers were astonished - both that a black man ...
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... duty to speak and publish for the race - not simply their local lodge or organization or community , but the African - American community . Such efforts chal- lenged white " friends " to relinquish their moral guardianship of blacks ...
... duty to speak and publish for the race - not simply their local lodge or organization or community , but the African - American community . Such efforts chal- lenged white " friends " to relinquish their moral guardianship of blacks ...
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... duty to take their freedom by force . So convinced of this is Garnet that he lectures his enslaved brethren that they will not be guaranteed entry into heaven merely because they had been oppressed . Frederick Douglass feared that ...
... duty to take their freedom by force . So convinced of this is Garnet that he lectures his enslaved brethren that they will not be guaranteed entry into heaven merely because they had been oppressed . Frederick Douglass feared that ...
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... duty to bring this common history to the public's attention . Much later , in his work defending the formation of black militias , William Watkins referred to Jackson's message as evidence of whites ' reliance on black military might in ...
... duty to bring this common history to the public's attention . Much later , in his work defending the formation of black militias , William Watkins referred to Jackson's message as evidence of whites ' reliance on black military might in ...
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... Duty of Colored People in Regard to the Great Slaveholders's Rebellion .... " ( Philadelphia , 1862 ) ; " Equal Suffrage . Address From the Colored Citizens of Norfolk , Va . , ... " ( New Bedford , Mass . , 1865 ) ; William Still , “ A ...
... Duty of Colored People in Regard to the Great Slaveholders's Rebellion .... " ( Philadelphia , 1862 ) ; " Equal Suffrage . Address From the Colored Citizens of Norfolk , Va . , ... " ( New Bedford , Mass . , 1865 ) ; William Still , “ A ...
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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