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Informationen zum Autor Dorothy Sterling Klappentext This collection, drawn from a wealth of original research into previously untapped sources - including letters, diaries, memoirs, speeches, poems, songs, newspaper articles, advertisements, a ship's log, and official documents - allows African Americans to speak afresh across more than two centuries. Besides the expected voices of Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, this book makes vivid the experiences and views of a diverse range of lesser-known but equally fascinating personalities: Ira Aldridge, one of the great Shakespearean actors of his day; William Allen, the first black college professor in the country; the astronomer and mathematician Benjamin Banneker; Paul Cuffe, owner of a fleet of merchant ships; Martin R. Delany, the father of black nationalism; James Forten, war veteran, inventor, and one of the wealthiest men in America; the militant Henry Highland Garnet, who urged slaves to revolt; the poet Phillis Wheatley; as well as ordinary free blacks, fugitive slaves, soldiers, wives, mothers, pioneers, sailors, and numerous others. Zusammenfassung "This impressive collection, drawn from a wealth of original research into previously untapped sources--including letters, diaries, memoirs, speeches, poems, songs, newspaper articles, advertisements, a" Inhaltsverzeichnis Beloved Africans (1787-1830) * We Have No City! No Country! * The dust of Africa Lodged on Our Rigging * The Impassable Barrier * A Life of Ones Own Colored Americans (1830-40) * Our Claims Are on America * Wash Me White * Strivingfor What? * Tales of Woe We Are Men (1840-50) * We Need More Radicalism * On the Antislavery Circuit * Hug Those Gentlemen! * Kidnappers! * Time for a Change Some People! Ordinary and Extraordinary * The Black Family * Making It in the North * Black Pioneers * Globetrotters * Gift of Story and Song It Was Nation Time (1850-60) * Black is a Very Pretty Color * School Days * I Intend to Fight * The Colored Patiots * By Any Means Necessary * Where Shall We Go? O! Freedom (1861-65) * A White Mans War * Many Thousands Gone * The Colored Volunteer * Copperhead! Johnny Reb and Uncle Sam * They Also Served * VictoryWhat Then? ...
