Race and revolution / Gary B. Nash.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nash, Gary B.

Series:

Merrill Jensen lectures in constitutional studies

The Merrill Jensen lectures in constitutional studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antislavery movements--United States.

Antislavery movements.

Abolitionists.

History.

African Americans.

United States.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--African Americans.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social aspects.

Social aspects.

Abolitionists--United States--History--18th century.

African Americans--History--To 1863.

United States--History--Confederation, 1783-1789.

Physical Description:

xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First Rowman and Littlefield edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.

Summary:

Race and Revolution is a trenchant study of the revolutionary generation's early efforts to right the apparent contradiction of slavery and of their ultimate compromises that not only left the institution intact, but provided it with the protection of a vastly strengthened government after 1788. Race and Revolution describes the free black community's response to this failure of the revolution's promise, its vigorous and articulate pleas for justice, and the community's successes in building its own African-American institutions within the hostile environment of early nineteenth-century America.

Notes:

"A Madison House book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-206) and index.

ISBN:

0945612214

9780945612216

OCLC:

123077552