Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, Phillip Lapsansky 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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... racial uplift and national redemption . Pamphleteering became one of the most important parts of this tradition . Yet while scholarship on African - American writing and culture has proliferated to an unprecedented degree in the past ...
... racial uplift and national redemption . Pamphleteering became one of the most important parts of this tradition . Yet while scholarship on African - American writing and culture has proliferated to an unprecedented degree in the past ...
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... racial justice from the beginning of the American republic until the country's near demise during the Civil War and through the twentieth century . Black pamphleteers were a consistent part of this struggle . Their writ- ings presented ...
... racial justice from the beginning of the American republic until the country's near demise during the Civil War and through the twentieth century . Black pamphleteers were a consistent part of this struggle . Their writ- ings presented ...
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... racial reform . In most black communities , by the first decade of the nine- teenth century , increasing numbers of pamphlets were " published by the order of the society " or " published at the request of the author . " 9 In this ...
... racial reform . In most black communities , by the first decade of the nine- teenth century , increasing numbers of pamphlets were " published by the order of the society " or " published at the request of the author . " 9 In this ...
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... racial redemption . " The enterprise in which we are engaged is of so novel a nature , ” Samuel Cornish and John Russworm wrote to white abolitionists in 1827 about starting Freedom's Journal , " that it will require some time to elapse ...
... racial redemption . " The enterprise in which we are engaged is of so novel a nature , ” Samuel Cornish and John Russworm wrote to white abolitionists in 1827 about starting Freedom's Journal , " that it will require some time to elapse ...
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... racial equality . The cohort of pamphleteers working between the 1790s and the 1820s established a foundation for future black antislavery struggles by focusing squarely on these broad concerns . Indeed , subsequent generations of ...
... racial equality . The cohort of pamphleteers working between the 1790s and the 1820s established a foundation for future black antislavery struggles by focusing squarely on these broad concerns . Indeed , subsequent generations of ...
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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Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest ... Richard Newman,Patrick Rael,Phillip Lapsansky No preview available - 2001 |
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