Black identity and Black protest in the antebellum North Patrick Rael

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rael, Patrick.

Series:

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Race identity--Northeastern States.

African Americans.

African Americans--Northeastern States--Intellectual life.

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

African Americans--History--To 1863.

Free African Americans--Northeastern States--History--19th century.

Free African Americans.

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

African American leadership.

Protest movements--Northeastern States--History--20th century.

Protest movements.

Northeastern States--Race relations.

Northeastern States.

Physical Description:

xii, 421 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments, xi

Introduction:

Of Men, Lions, and History, 1

1

A Different Measure of Oppression:

Leadership and Identity in the Black North, 12

2

Besieged by Freedom's Army:

Antislavery Celebrations and Black Activism, 54

3

The Sign of Things:

The "Names Controversy" and Black Identity, 82

4

Discipline of the Heart, Discipline of the Mind:

The Sources of Black Social Thought, 118

5

Slaves to a Wicked Public Sentiment:

Black Respectability and the Response to Prejudice, 157

6

A Nation Out of a Nation:

Black Nationalism as Nationalism, 209

7

This Temple of Liberty:

Black Racialism and American Identity, 237

Conclusion:

Black Protest and the Continuing Revolution, 279

Epilogue, 291

Notes, 299

Bibliography, 351

Index, 409.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-407) and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.

ISBN:

0807826383 (cloth : alk. paper)

0807849677 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

46343179