Pamphlets of protest : an anthology of early African-American protest literature, 1790-1860 edited by Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, and Philip Lapsansky

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Newman, Richard, 1930-

Rael, Patrick.

Lapsansky, Phillip.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--History--18th century--Sources.

African Americans.

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

African Americans--Politics and government--18th century--Sources.

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

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

Antislavery movements.

Protest literature, American.

Physical Description:

viii, 326 p. ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2001.

Contents:

A narrative of the proceedings of the Black people during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia (1794) / Absalom Jones and Richard Allen

A charge (1797) / Prince Hall

A dialogue between a Virginian and an African minister (1810) / Daniel Coker

Series of letters by a man of colour (1813) / James Forten

An oration on the abolition of the slave trade (1814) / Russell Parrott

An address before the Pennsylvania Augustine Society (1818) / Prince Saunders

Ethiopian manifesto (1829) / Robert Alexander Young

Appeal to the colored citizens of the world (1829, 1830) / David Walker

Address to the National Convention of 1834 (1834) / William Hamilton

Address delivered before the African Female Society of Troy (1834) / Elizabeth Wicks

Productions (1835) / Maria W. Stewart

Appeal of forty thousand citizens, threatened with disfranchisement, to the people of Pennsylvania (1837) / Robert Purvis

New York Committee of Vigilance for the year 1837, together with important facts relative to their proceedings (1837) / David Ruggles

Address to the slaves of the United States of America (1848) / Henry Highland Garnet

Proceedings of the National Convention of Colored People (1847)

Report of the proceedings of the Colored National Convention ... held in California (1848)

Essay on the character and condition of the African race (1852) / John W. Lewis

A plea for emigration, or notes of Canada West (1852) / Mary Ann Shadd

Address to the people of the United States (1853) / Frederick Douglass, et al.

Political destiny of the colored race on the American continent (1854) / Martin Delany

The history of the Haitian Revolution (1855) / William Wells Brown

An appeal to the females of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (1857) / Mary Still

A vindication of the capacity of the Negro for self-government and civilized progress (1857) / J. Theodore Holly

The English language in Liberia (1861) / Alexander Crummell

Negro self-respect and pride of race (1862) / T. Morris Chester.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 27-31) and index.

ISBN:

041592443X (alk. paper)

9780415924436 (alk. paper)

0415924448 (pbk. : alk. paper)

9780415924443 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

43798517

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