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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... slaves did or thought was often unknown . Frederick Douglass commented that one was either " within the circle " of ... slaves , ought to be part of any dialogue over slavery , abolition , or racial justice . Even white aboli- tionists ...
... slaves did or thought was often unknown . Frederick Douglass commented that one was either " within the circle " of ... slaves , ought to be part of any dialogue over slavery , abolition , or racial justice . Even white aboli- tionists ...
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... slave narrative genre preceded black pamphleteering , dating to the 1760 publication of former slave John Marrant's autobiography . While former slaves produced a few narratives in the 1790s and early 1800s , these tales did not become ...
... slave narrative genre preceded black pamphleteering , dating to the 1760 publication of former slave John Marrant's autobiography . While former slaves produced a few narratives in the 1790s and early 1800s , these tales did not become ...
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... slavery remained a dominant part of the American landscape . The nation's new constitution guaranteed that masters would have a right to retrieve fugitive slaves through- out the Union , the overseas slave trade functioned legally until ...
... slavery remained a dominant part of the American landscape . The nation's new constitution guaranteed that masters would have a right to retrieve fugitive slaves through- out the Union , the overseas slave trade functioned legally until ...
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... slaves born before 1800 would be unequivocally liberated ) by listing the names of the bill's legislative supporters and by calling artfully on other statesmen throughout the land to fight against the institution of slavery . " Strange ...
... slaves born before 1800 would be unequivocally liberated ) by listing the names of the bill's legislative supporters and by calling artfully on other statesmen throughout the land to fight against the institution of slavery . " Strange ...
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... slavery into a highly learned dissec- tion of white racial stereotypes . Indeed , the power of his pamphlet is not simply its message that slavery is wrong but also that white society must take seriously black views - properly couched ...
... slavery into a highly learned dissec- tion of white racial stereotypes . Indeed , the power of his pamphlet is not simply its message that slavery is wrong but also that white society must take seriously black views - properly couched ...
Contents
ABSALOM JONES AND RICHARD ALLEN | 32 |
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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