Witness for freedom : African American voices on race, slavery, and emancipation C. Peter Ripley, editor ; co-editors, Roy E. Finkenbine, Michael F. Hembree, Donald Yacovone

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ripley, C. Peter, 1941- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antislavery movements--United States--History--Sources.

Antislavery movements.

Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century--Sources.

Abolitionists.

African Americans--History--To 1863--Sources.

African Americans.

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

African American abolitionists.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1993]

Summary:

This documentary history of the African American struggle for freedom and equality collects eighty-nine documents that represent the best of the recently published five-volume Black abolitionist papers. In these texts, African Americans tell their own stories of the struggle to end slavery and claim their rights as American citizens, of the battle against colonization and the "back to Africa" movement, and of their troubled relationship with the federal government.--From publisher description.

Contents:

The rise of black abolitionism : the colonization controversy; the growth of black abolitionism; the rise of immediatism; moral reform; prejudice; two abolitionisms

African Americans and the antislavery movement : blacks as advocates; slave narratives; black women abolitionists; antislavery and the black community; problems in the movement

Black independence : a new direction; the African American press; in the common defense; antislavery politics; black antislavery tactics; by all just and necessary means

Black abolitionists and the national crisis : the slave power; the fugitive slave law; black emigration; black nationality; blacks and John Brown

Civil war : debating the war; the emancipation proclamation; blacks and Lincoln; the black military experience; the movement goes south; reconstruction.

The rise of black abolitionism. The colonization controversy. Our present homes ; Justice and humanity

The growth of black abolitionism. An address to the Massachusetts General Colored Associations ; David Walker's appeal

The rise of immediatism. Black leaders and William Lloyd Garrison

Moral reform. By moral suasion alone ; Responsibility of colored people in the free states ; A reading room ; Temperance

Prejudice. The effect of racial prejudice ; Segregated streetcars ; Racial violence

Two abolitionisms. Black abolitionism defined

Blacks as advocates. Your obedient servant ; Black abolitionist lecturers ; William Wells Brown's panorama ; Content with freedom ; What the slaves think

Slave narrative. Slavery in Kentucky ; A thousand miles to freedom ; Slave life- a woman's story ; Narrative of Tom Wilson

Black women abolitionists. A woman's abolitionism ; The antislavery fair ; A woman's place ; Antislavery poetry ; Bound with them

Antislavery and the black community. What have they done? ; The Pittsburgh juvenile anti-slavery society

The Union Missionary Society ; Black abolitionism in the pulpit ; Fair in aid of the impartial citizen

Problems in the movement. Hints about prejudice ; Professed friends ; The need for a practical abolitionism

Black independence. A new direction. Asserting independence ; Williams Whipper's letter ; An address to the colored people of the United States

The African American Press. Why we should have a paper ; Obstacles for the Black Press ; Report of the Committee on a National Press

In the common defense. Kidnapping in the city of New York ; The rescue of Lucy Faggins ; The underground railroad

Antislavery politics. Pure antislavery politics ; Our platform of principles ; An extraordinary event ; The issue plainly stated

Black antislavery tactics. Moral elevation? ; Against separate schools ; Lobbying the legislature ; Let us rouse ourselves ; An unjust tax

By all just and necessary means. What are moral means good for? ; An appeal for violence

Black abolitionists and the national crisis. The slave power. Slavery- its effects upon the rights and interests of the North ; In the wake of Dred Scott

The fugitive slave law. African Americans respond to the fugitive slave law ; Who are the murderer? ; A good revolver

Black emigration. The Canadian haven ; Standing on free ground ; Come to Canada ; Call for emigration

Black nationality. Call for a black nationality ; Thoughts on Hayti

Blacks and John Brown. Glorious work ; If die I must ; John Brown, the martyr ; Breaking into a state ; Call to arms

Civil war. Debating the war. Formation of colored regiments ; The necessity of action

The Emancipation Proclamation. Less than complete freedom ; The day of jubilee? ; The present- and its duties

Blacks and Lincoln. A defender of slavery? ; The best choice available ; John C. Fremont, a better choice ; Assassination of President Lincoln

The Black military experience. The meaning of the war ; Bravery and its rewards

The movement goes south. A woman's war ; Rev. J.W. Loguen home again ; The southern field and the proper agents

Reconstruction. The perils by the way ; Capital versus labor ; A brief review ; The prospect seems gloomy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289) and index.

Local Notes:

Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection.

Other Format:

Online version: Witness for freedom.

ISBN:

0807820725

9780807820728

0807844047

9780807844045

OCLC:

26013077