Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860Between 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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Often denied the right to vote (and therefore to participate in formal politics), African Americans viewed public protest as the central means of waging a liberation struggle. Public protest took many forms, from petitioning governments ...
Often denied the right to vote (and therefore to participate in formal politics), African Americans viewed public protest as the central means of waging a liberation struggle. Public protest took many forms, from petitioning governments ...
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As William Andrews has shown, black autobiographies were sometimes shaped by white editors and copyists, who might, for example, overemphasize religiosity as a means of black redemption or the kindness of white abolitionists.
As William Andrews has shown, black autobiographies were sometimes shaped by white editors and copyists, who might, for example, overemphasize religiosity as a means of black redemption or the kindness of white abolitionists.
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If writing protest literature was a means to an end, that end was destroying slavery and achieving racial equality. The cohort of pamphleteers working between the 1790s and the 1820s established a foundation for future black antislavery ...
If writing protest literature was a means to an end, that end was destroying slavery and achieving racial equality. The cohort of pamphleteers working between the 1790s and the 1820s established a foundation for future black antislavery ...
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In this manner, pamphlets serve as a critical means of examining an increasingly vocal debate among antebellum black reformers over the tactics required to achieve meaningful equality. For all generations of pre-Civil War activists, ...
In this manner, pamphlets serve as a critical means of examining an increasingly vocal debate among antebellum black reformers over the tactics required to achieve meaningful equality. For all generations of pre-Civil War activists, ...
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Contents
A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful | |
A Charge 1797 | |
A Dialogue Between a Virginian and an African Minister 1810 | |
An Address before the Pennsylvania Augustine Society 1818 | |
Address to the National Convention of 1834 1834 | |
Productions 1835 | |
New York Committee of Vigilance for the Year 1837 together with | |
Proceedings of the National Convention of Colored People 1847 | |
Report of the Proceedings of the Colored National Convention Cleveland 1848 held | |
Address to the People of the United States 1853 1857 | |
Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent 1854 | |
The History of the Haitian Revolution 1855 | |
An Appeal to the Females of the African Methodist Episcopal Church | |
The English Language in Liberia 1861 | |
Debate over Garnets Address to the Slaves of the United States | |
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| Title | Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860 |
| Editors | Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, Phillip Lapsansky |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2013 |
| ISBN | 1136687327, 9781136687327 |
| Length | 336 pages |
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