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The colored conventions movement : black organizing in the nineteenth century / edited by P. Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey, and Sarah Lynn Patterson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
- The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights--Congresses--History--19th century.
- African Americans.
- Congresses and conventions--United States--History--19th century.
- Congresses and conventions.
- History.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 363 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- How to Use This Book and Its Digital Companions: Approaches to and Afterlives of the Colored Conventions / Jim Casey, P. Gabrielle Foreman, and Sarah Lynn Patterson
- Critical Conventions, Methods, and Interventions. Black Organizing, Print Advocacy, and Collective Authorship: The Long History of the Colored Conventions Movement / P. Gabrielle Foreman ; A Word Fitly Spoken: Edmonia Highgate, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and the 1864 Syracuse Convention / Eric Gardner ; Where Did They Eat? Where Did They Stay? Interpreting Material Culture of Black Women's Domesticity in the Context of the Colored Conventions / Psyche Williams-Forson ; Reconstructing James McCune Smith's Alexandrine Library: The New York State/County and National Colored Conventions (1840-1855) / Carla L. Peterson
- Antebellum Debates: Citizenship Practices, Print Culture, and Women's Activism. Flights of Fancy: Black Print, Collaboration, and Performances in "An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America (Rejected by the National Convention, 1843)" / Derrick R. Spires ; Performing Politics, Creating Community: Antebellum Black Conventions as Political Rituals / Erica L. Ball ; Colored Conventions, Moral Reform, and the American Race Problem / Joan L. Bryant ; Deleted Name but Indelible Body: Black Women at the Colored Conventions in Antebellum Ohio / Jewon Woo
- Out of Abolition's Shadow: Print, Education, and the Underground Railroad. The Organ of the Whole: Colored Conventions, the Black Press, and the Question of National Authority / Benjamin Fagan ; As the True Guardians of Our Interests: The Ethos of Black Leadership and Demography at Antebellum Colored Conventions / Sarah Lynn Patterson ; Gender Politics and the Manual Labor College Initiative at National Colored Conventions in Antebellum America / Kabria Baumgartner ; Secrets Well Kept: Colored Conventioneers and Underground Railroad Activism / Cheryl Janifer LaRoche
- Locating Conventions: Black Activism's Wide Reach and Unexpected Places. Social Networks of the Colored Conventions, 1830-1864 / Jim Casey ; The Emigration Debate and the Southern Colored Conventions Movement / Selena R. Sanderfer ; Further Silence upon Our Part Would Be an Outrage: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the Colored Conventions Movement / Andre E. Johnson ; A Convention of Grumblers! Creating Black Texans and Reproducing Heteropatriarchy / Daina Ramey Berry and Jermaine Thibodeaux ; None but Colored Testimony against Him: The California Colored Convention of 1855 and the Origins of the First Civil Rights Movement in California / Jean Pfaelzer.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles D. Dickey, Jr., Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781469654287
- 1469654288
- Publisher Number:
- 99986836493
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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