African-American activism before the Civil War : the freedom struggle in the antebellum North / edited by Patrick Rael.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rael, Patrick.

Class of 1939 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights.

History.

Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.

Antislavery movements.

Race relations.

African Americans--Politics and government.

African American leadership.

African American political activists.

African American civil rights workers.

African American abolitionists.

United States.

African American abolitionists--History--19th century.

African American civil rights workers--History--19th century.

African American political activists--History--19th century.

African American leadership--History--19th century.

African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans--Politics and government--19th century.

United States--Race relations--History--19th century.

Northeastern States--Race relations--History--19th century.

Northeastern States.

Physical Description:

viii, 307 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2008.

Summary:

In the years leading up to the Civil War, African Americans in the North fought through legal and popular prejudice to change their situation and that of all African Americans in the United States. While not forgotten, the role of northern black American activists in the antebellum period was not considered a central piece of American history until the mid-twentieth century. African-American Activism before the Civil War gathers together the most influential scholarly essays on the topic published since 1965. Incorporating both classic pieces and new voices in an evolving field of study, editor Patrick Rael has carefully selected and organized the essays and anchored them with a comprehensive introduction.

African-American Activism before the Civil War is an invaluable collection for anyone interested in this vital minority whose efforts at community building and radical protest acted as a critical force in helping bring about the end of slavery, and set the precedent that inspired the next generation of activists.

Contents:

1 The Emancipation of the Negro Abolitionist / Leon F. Litwack 39

2 Black Power-The Debate in 1840 / Jane H. Pease, William H. Pease 50

3 Elevating the Race: The Social Thought of Black Leaders, 1827-50 / Frederick Cooper 58

4 Black History's Antebellum Origins / Benjamin Quarles 78

5 "Since They Got Those Separate Churches": Afro-Americans and Racism in Jacksonian Philadelphia / Emma Jones Lapsansky 100

6 Interpreting Early Black Ideology: A Reappraisal of Historical Consensus / George A. Levesque 119

7 Afro-American Identity: Reflections on the Pre-Civil War Era / Ernest Allen, Jr. 134

8 Freedom's Yoke: Gender Conventions among Antebellum Free Blacks / James Oliver Horton 168

9 The Political Significance of Slave Resistance / James Oakes 188

10 "Ethiopia Shall Soon Stretch Forth Her Hands": Black Destiny in Nineteenth-Century America / Albert J. Raboteau 206

11 The Emergence of Racial Modernity and the Rise of the White North, 1790-1840 / James Brewer Stewart 220

12 From Abolitionist Amalgamators to "Rulers of the Five Points": The Discourse of Interracial Sex and Reform in Antebellum New York City / Leslie M. Harris 250

13 The Market Revolution and Market Values in Antebellum Black Protest Thought / Patrick Rael 272.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1939 Fund.

ISBN:

9780415957267

0415957265

9780415957274

0415957273

OCLC:

173509278

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