abolitionist writings
African American history
African Methodist Episcopal Church
African Race
African Slave Trade
antebellum activism
Barren
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Birth Day
black intellectual tradition
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Citizens Of The United States
Civilized Society
Colored Men
Colored Persons
Confer
Declaration Of Independence
early African American protest literature
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Free Colored People
Free Coloured Man
Free States
Freedom's Journal
Hireling
historical pamphleteering
James Forten
Langs Ton
National Emigration Convention
Practical Christian
racial justice movements
Rock
United States
Violated
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415924443
- Weight: 620g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 25 Oct 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Between the Revolution and the Civil War, African-American writing became a prominent feature of both black protest culture and American public life. Although denied a political voice in national affairs, black authors produced a wide range of literature to project their views into the public sphere. Autobiographies and personal narratives told of slavery's horrors, newspapers railed against racism in its various forms, and poetry, novellas, reprinted sermons and speeches told tales of racial uplift and redemption. The editors examine the important and previously overlooked pamphleteering tradition and offer new insights into how and why the printed word became so important to black activists during this critical period. An introduction by the editors situates the pamphlets in their various social, economic and political contexts. This is the first book to capture the depth of black print culture before the Civil War by examining perhaps its most important form, the pamphlet.
Richard Newman is Assistant Professor of History at the Rochester Institute of Technology; Patrick Rael is Assistant Professor of History at Bowdoin College; and Phillip Lapsansky is an archivist at the Library Company of Philadelphia.
