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Informationen zum Autor Patrick Rael is Associate Professor of History at Bowdoin College, Maine. He is the author of Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North and Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860 (Routledge). Klappentext African-American Activism before the Civil War is the first collection of scholarship on the role of African Americans in the struggle for racial equality in the northern states before the Civil War. Many of these essays are already known as classics in the field, and others are well on their way to becoming definitive in a still-evolving field. Here, in one place for the first time, anchored by a comprehensive, analytical introduction discussing the historiography of antebellum black activism, the best scholarship on this crucial group of African American activists can finally be studied together. Zusammenfassung On the eve of the Civil War, over 5 per cent of the nation's 4.5 million African Americans lived outside of bondage in the nominally "free" states of the Union. These African Americans exercised a power in national discussions over slavery. This book gathers together scholarly essays published from 1965 on the role of African Americans. Inhaltsverzeichnis TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOREWORD (By James Brewer Stewart) INTRODUCTION Leon F. Litwack, The Emancipation of the Negro Abolitionist Jane H. Pease; William H. Pease, Black Power — The Debate in 1840 Frederick Cooper, Elevating the Race: The Social Thought of Black Leaders, 1827-1850 Benjamin Quarles, Black History’s Antebellum Origins Emma Jones Lapsansky, ‘Since They Got Those Separate Churches’: Afro-Americans and Racism in Jacksonian Philadelphia George A. Levesque, Interpreting Early Black Ideology: A Reappraisal of Historical Consensus Ernest Allen, Jr., Afro-American Identity: Reflections on the Pre-Civil War Era James Oliver Horton, Freedom's Yoke: Gender Conventions among Antebellum Free Blacks James Oakes, The Political Significance of Slave Resistance Albert J. Raboteau, Ethiopia Shall Soon Stretch Forth Her Hands': Black Destiny in Nineteenth-Century America James Brewer Stewart, The Emergence of Racial Modernity and the Rise of the White North, 1790-1840 Leslie M. Harris, From Abolitionist Amalgamators to ‘Rulers of the Five Points’: The Discourse of Interracial Sex and Reform in Antebellum New York City Patrick Rael, The Market Revolution and Market Values in Antebellum Black Protest Thought Index ...
