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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... prejudice , lay at the roots of their plight . To the post - Revolutionary generation of Americans , the idea that black writers would engage people outside of their own community - the public - was one of two things : inconceivable or ...
... prejudice , lay at the roots of their plight . To the post - Revolutionary generation of Americans , the idea that black writers would engage people outside of their own community - the public - was one of two things : inconceivable or ...
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... prejudice in early national America , Forten's pamphlet had a dual aim : to remind Pennsylvanians that their own state history was a glorious story of freedom ( from William Penn's goal of creating a utopian colony to the forming of ...
... prejudice in early national America , Forten's pamphlet had a dual aim : to remind Pennsylvanians that their own state history was a glorious story of freedom ( from William Penn's goal of creating a utopian colony to the forming of ...
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... as a critical means of fighting oppression . Awakening the mind would lead to practical benefits as well as the cultivation of taste and higher sensi- bilities . It would also destroy racial prejudice , prepare 12 Introduction.
... as a critical means of fighting oppression . Awakening the mind would lead to practical benefits as well as the cultivation of taste and higher sensi- bilities . It would also destroy racial prejudice , prepare 12 Introduction.
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... prejudice , prepare blacks for citizenship , and confound slavery's advocates . What would proponents of slavery say if there were a black Jefferson ? " It is the hope of benefiting our condition , " Whipper wrote , " that has ...
... prejudice , prepare blacks for citizenship , and confound slavery's advocates . What would proponents of slavery say if there were a black Jefferson ? " It is the hope of benefiting our condition , " Whipper wrote , " that has ...
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... prejudicial actions and beliefs that merely killing slavery would not end black oppression . Moreover , he indirectly critiqued moral uplift strategies , pessimistically noting that whites ( in the context of the 1830s world ) would ...
... prejudicial actions and beliefs that merely killing slavery would not end black oppression . Moreover , he indirectly critiqued moral uplift strategies , pessimistically noting that whites ( in the context of the 1830s world ) would ...
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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