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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... nature and circumstances of the thing " -of African Americans . " Thus I was compelled to travel over large philosophical and historical grounds , to find the place of the wool hairy negro in the order of nature . " And Rusticus's ...
... nature and circumstances of the thing " -of African Americans . " Thus I was compelled to travel over large philosophical and historical grounds , to find the place of the wool hairy negro in the order of nature . " And Rusticus's ...
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... nature ... [ can ] think , reflect , and feel injuries . " Indeed , they asserted , if whites were enslaved , they too would suffer intellectually as well as physically . On the other hand , if slavery and racism ceased to exist ...
... nature ... [ can ] think , reflect , and feel injuries . " Indeed , they asserted , if whites were enslaved , they too would suffer intellectually as well as physically . On the other hand , if slavery and racism ceased to exist ...
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... natural , intellectual , and phys- ical resources of the state or nation enhances her strength . " American nationalism ... nature - versus - nurture argument , they asserted that if slavery and racial oppression were eradicated , then ...
... natural , intellectual , and phys- ical resources of the state or nation enhances her strength . " American nationalism ... nature - versus - nurture argument , they asserted that if slavery and racial oppression were eradicated , then ...
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... nature : Remove the stigma of bondage and watch blacks become successful citizens . Allen and Jones were both former slaves who had bought their own freedom and settled in post - Revolutionary Philadelphia . Over the next several ...
... nature : Remove the stigma of bondage and watch blacks become successful citizens . Allen and Jones were both former slaves who had bought their own freedom and settled in post - Revolutionary Philadelphia . Over the next several ...
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... nature , it ought to be recorded , that some of the convicts in the goal , a part of the term of whose confinement had been remitted as a reward for their peaceable , orderly behavior , voluntarily offered themselves as nurses to attend ...
... nature , it ought to be recorded , that some of the convicts in the goal , a part of the term of whose confinement had been remitted as a reward for their peaceable , orderly behavior , voluntarily offered themselves as nurses to attend ...
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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