The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation / Benjamin Fagan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fagan, Benjamin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Press and politics--United States--History--19th century.

Press and politics.

African American newspapers--History--19th century.

African American newspapers.

African American press--History--19th century.

African American press.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation shows how antebellum African Americans used the newspaper as a means for translating their belief in black "chosenness" into plans and programs for black liberation. During the decades leading up the Civil War, the idea that God had marked black Americans as his chosen people on earth became a central article of faith in northern black communities, with black newspaper editors articulating it in their journals. Benjamin Fagan shows how the early black press helped shape the relationship between black chosenness and the struggles for black freedom and equality in America, in the process transforming the very notion of a chosen American nation. Exploring how cultures of print helped antebellum black Americans apply their faith to struggles grand and small, The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation uses the vast and neglected archive of the early black press to shed new light on many of the central figures and questions of African American studies.

Contents:

Introduction: the records of black chosenness

Acting chosen

Prophecies for a chosen nation

Revolutionary chosenness

The limits of black chosenness

Joining the chosen army

Conclusion: the ends of black chosenness.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780820349398

0820349399

OCLC:

951505566