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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... interest does not adequately describe their motives or roles . African - American protestors of all classes and stations believed in the broad importance of literacy to the freedom struggle . As James Forten wrote to one Mass- achusetts ...
... interest does not adequately describe their motives or roles . African - American protestors of all classes and stations believed in the broad importance of literacy to the freedom struggle . As James Forten wrote to one Mass- achusetts ...
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... interest . Calls for moral uplift pervaded black protest literature from the first pamphlets of Jones and Allen's generation through antebellum - era writers such as Theodore Wright , William Whipper , and Frederick Douglass . According ...
... interest . Calls for moral uplift pervaded black protest literature from the first pamphlets of Jones and Allen's generation through antebellum - era writers such as Theodore Wright , William Whipper , and Frederick Douglass . According ...
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... interests should they try to do so . Rather , blacks possessed the historical background and cultural power necessary to equal America if they united . In short , Delany's pamphlet challenged black activists to rethink their tactics in ...
... interests should they try to do so . Rather , blacks possessed the historical background and cultural power necessary to equal America if they united . In short , Delany's pamphlet challenged black activists to rethink their tactics in ...
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... interest in educating black youth in their own communities . By tending to these multiple community needs , black women would spread literacy and the Gospel far and wide and thus put racial subjection on the defensive . In the end ...
... interest in educating black youth in their own communities . By tending to these multiple community needs , black women would spread literacy and the Gospel far and wide and thus put racial subjection on the defensive . In the end ...
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... Interest and Disinterestedness , ” in Beyond Confederation , ed . Stephen Botein , Richard Beeman and Edward Carter ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1987 ) . 70. James Forten , " Series of Letters by a Man of Colour ...
... Interest and Disinterestedness , ” in Beyond Confederation , ed . Stephen Botein , Richard Beeman and Edward Carter ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1987 ) . 70. James Forten , " Series of Letters by a Man of Colour ...
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 |
Report of the Proceedings of the Colored National | 179 |
MARY ANN SHADD | 198 |
FREDERICK DOUGLASS ET AL | 214 |
WILLIAM WELLS BROWN | 240 |
MARY STILL | 254 |
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL | 282 |
T MORRIS CHESTER | 304 |
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