James W.C. Pennington : essays toward rediscovering a great African American intellectual and reformer / edited by Jan Stievermann, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Caitlin B. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stievermann, Jan, editor.

Smith, Caitlin B., editor.

Glaude, Eddie S., Jr., 1968- editor.

Series:

Oxford new histories of philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pennington, James W. C.

African Americans--Biography.

African Americans.

Autobiography.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

This volume offers pioneering essays on the life, writings, and contexts of nineteenth-century Black thinker and activist James W.C. Pennington. Mostly forgotten after Reconstruction, Pennington was an internationally-acclaimed Black intellectual during his own day. His activism took him to Europe, Jamaica, and across the United States. His theological training in the Edwardsean tradition, along with his extensive research into Black history, made him a leading African American intellectual and one of the most incisive critics of slavery and racism. Bringing together experts from a variety of disciplines, this volume re-inserts Pennington into contemporary scholarship on abolitionism, antebellum religion, Romanticism, and transnational reform movements.

Contents:

Pennington, the colored conventions movement, and the struggle for black self-determination / John Ernest

Reverend James W.C. Pennington’s transnational abolitionist mission / Manisha Sinha

James W.C. Pennington and the peace cause / Sandra M Gustafson

Revolutionary encounters: American abolitionists and Europe’s 1848ers / Mischa Honeck

James W.C. Pennington’s human rights campaign / John Witte

James W.C. Pennington’s romanticism / Kenyon Gradert

“To make me more efficient for good”: Black democratic perfectionism and James W.C. Pennington / Eddie S Glaude

James W.C. Pennington and the new divinity tradition / Jan Stievermann

“What is this but infidelity?”: James W.C. Pennington’s engagements with skepticism / Caitlin B Smith

Freedom vs. family in the pre-emancipation African American fugitive slave narrative: The singular case of James W.C. Pennington / William L Andrews

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 3, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version : Stievermann, Jan, James W.C. Pennington

ISBN:

9780197690741

0197690742

OCLC:

1529940428

Publisher Number:

CIPO000271564

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license