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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An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860 Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, Phillip Lapsansky ... African Americans . " Thus I was compelled to travel over large philosophical and historical grounds , to find the ...
An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860 Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, Phillip Lapsansky ... African Americans . " Thus I was compelled to travel over large philosophical and historical grounds , to find the ...
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An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860 Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, Phillip Lapsansky. member of New York City's black community during the early republic , commented in an 1809 speech to the African ...
An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860 Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, Phillip Lapsansky. member of New York City's black community during the early republic , commented in an 1809 speech to the African ...
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... . " He who would be free must himself strike the first blow , " black leaders were fond of quoting . When African Americans put pen to paper , they did just that.22 Justice for All : African - American Pamphleteers in the Introduction.
... . " He who would be free must himself strike the first blow , " black leaders were fond of quoting . When African Americans put pen to paper , they did just that.22 Justice for All : African - American Pamphleteers in the Introduction.
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... African - American Pamphleteers in the Early National Period Emerging during a period of rapid change in the new American nation — a nation black colonists helped create but were not fully a part of the first generation of black ...
... African - American Pamphleteers in the Early National Period Emerging during a period of rapid change in the new American nation — a nation black colonists helped create but were not fully a part of the first generation of black ...
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An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860 Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, Phillip Lapsansky ... black Americans , but they also framed their appeals in a careful manner . In 1827 , Nathaniel Paul of Albany ...
An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860 Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, Phillip Lapsansky ... black Americans , but they also framed their appeals in a careful manner . In 1827 , Nathaniel Paul of Albany ...
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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