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Book Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North

Download or read book Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North written by Patrick Rael and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-01-14 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany--these figures stand out in the annals of black protest for their vital antislavery efforts. But what of the rest of their generation, the thousands of other free blacks in the North? Patrick Rael explores the tradition of protest and sense of racial identity forged by both famous and lesser-known black leaders in antebellum America and illuminates the ideas that united these activists across a wide array of divisions. In so doing, he reveals the roots of the arguments that still resound in the struggle for justice today. Mining sources that include newspapers and pamphlets of the black national press, speeches and sermons, slave narratives and personal memoirs, Rael recovers the voices of an extraordinary range of black leaders in the first half of the nineteenth century. He traces how these activists constructed a black American identity through their participation in the discourse of the public sphere and how this identity in turn informed their critiques of a nation predicated on freedom but devoted to white supremacy. His analysis explains how their place in the industrializing, urbanizing antebellum North offered black leaders a unique opportunity to smooth over class and other tensions among themselves and successfully galvanize the race against slavery.

Book APPEAL TO THE CITIZENS OF PENNSYLVANIA ON BEHALF OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA      CLASSIC REPRINT

Download or read book APPEAL TO THE CITIZENS OF PENNSYLVANIA ON BEHALF OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA CLASSIC REPRINT written by PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL. SOCIETY and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Africans of the Diaspora

Download or read book Africans of the Diaspora written by Vincent Bakpetu Thompson and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the evolution and role of African people in the social and political structures of the Americas. Particular emphasis is placed on the evolution of leadership within the United States.

Book Black Conservatism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Eisenstadt
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-09-13
  • ISBN : 1135628467
  • Pages : 323 pages

Download or read book Black Conservatism written by Peter Eisenstadt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first comprehensive examination of African American conservative thought and politics from the late eighteenth century to the present. The essays in the collection explore various aspects of African American conservatism, including biographical studies of abolitionist James Forten, clergymen Henry McNeal Turner and J.H. Jackson, and activists A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin. Thematic essays in the volume consider southern black conservatism in the late nineteenth century and after World War I, African American success manuals, Ellisonian cultural criticism , the Nation of Islam, and African Americans and the Republican Party after 1964.

Book Philadelphia Stories

Download or read book Philadelphia Stories written by Samuel Otter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Philadelphia Stories, Samuel Otter finds literary value, historical significance, and political urgency in a sequence of texts written in and about Philadelphia between the Constitution and the Civil War. Historians such as Gary B. Nash and Julie Winch have chronicled the distinctive social and political space of early national Philadelphia. Yet while individual writers such as Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, and George Lippard have been linked to Philadelphia, no sustained attempt has been made to understand these figures, and many others, as writing in a tradition tied to the city's history. The site of William Penn's "Holy Experiment" in religious toleration and representative government and of national Declaration and Constitution, near the border between slavery and freedom, Philadelphia was home to one of the largest and most influential "free" African American communities in the United States. The city was seen by residents and observers as the laboratory for a social experiment with international consequences. Philadelphia would be the stage on which racial character would be tested and a possible future for the United States after slavery would be played out. It would be the arena in which various residents would or would not demonstrate their capacities to participate in the nation's civic and political life. Otter argues that the Philadelphia "experiment" (the term used in the nineteenth-century) produced a largely unacknowledged literary tradition of peculiar forms and intensities, in which verbal performance and social behavior assumed the weight of race and nation.

Book The Practice of Citizenship

Download or read book The Practice of Citizenship written by Derrick R. Spires and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Practice of Citizenship traces the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship. Considering a variety of texts by both canonical and lesser-known authors, Derrick R. Spires demonstrates how black writers articulated an expansive, practice-based theory of citizenship.

Book LAST APPEAL TO PENNSYLVANIA  CLASSIC REPRINT

Download or read book LAST APPEAL TO PENNSYLVANIA CLASSIC REPRINT written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Address to the People of Pennsylvania and the United States  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Address to the People of Pennsylvania and the United States Classic Reprint written by Penna. Soc. For Suppression o Lotteries and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Address to the People of Pennsylvania and the United States Transgressors had so long enjoyed impunity that they almost claimed it by prescr1pti011. No prospect pre sented but passive submission to a state of things at once pernicious and disgraceful. The traffic had so mingled itself With the feelings of our citizens that hundreds; of persons were known to pursue the purchase of lottery tickets as a regular means of subsistence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Proceedings of a Convention of Delegates From the Citizens of Pennsylvania

Download or read book Proceedings of a Convention of Delegates From the Citizens of Pennsylvania written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings of a Convention of Delegates From the Citizens of Pennsylvania: Opposed to Executive Usurpation and Abuse, Which Assembled at Harrisburg, May 27, 1834 Resolved, That in taking these steps a few weeks before the meeting of a new Congress, recently elected by the people, and clothed With the authority of the people, so that he might thereby be enabled to interpose his veto power, and frustrate the intentions Of the representatives Of the people, unless two thirds of both houses should concur - he was guilty Ofa violent encroachment upon the rights of the people, as they were intended to be secured by the Constitution. Resolved, That in assigning as a reason for this encroachment, that a major ity in Congress might be, and probably would be, bribed or corrupted, he was guilty of an unwarrantable assault upon the character of the representatives Of the people, an unjust and latal disparagement of the representative system. And a destructive outrage upon the whole scheme of our government; amount ing in fact, to an assertion, that there was no virtue but in the government of a single man, or what is properly denominated an absolute despotism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Conjugal Union

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert F. Reid-Pharr
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1999-07-22
  • ISBN : 0195355903
  • Pages : 179 pages

Download or read book Conjugal Union written by Robert F. Reid-Pharr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-22 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Conjugal Union, Robert F. Reid-Pharr argues that during the antebellum period a community of free black northeastern intellectuals sought to establish the stability of a Black American subjectivity by figuring the black body as the necessary antecedent to any intelligible Black American public presence. Reid-Pharr goes on to argue that the fact of the black body's constant and often spectacular display demonstrates an incredible uncertainty as to that body's status. Thus antebellum black intellectuals were always anxious about how a stable relationship between the black community might be maintained. Paying particular attention to Black American novels written before the Civil War, the author shows how the household was utilized by these writers to normalize this relationship of body to community such that a person could enter a household as a white and leave it as a black.

Book The Grimkes  The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family

Download or read book The Grimkes The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family written by Kerri K. Greenidge and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist • National Book Critics Circle Award [Biography] New York Times Book Review • 100 Notable Books of 2022 Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Society's Ralph Waldo Emerson Award Publishers Weekly • 10 Best Books of 2022 Best Books of 2022: NPR, Oprah Daily, Smithsonian, Boston Globe, Chicago Public Library A stunning counternarrative of the legendary abolitionist Grimke sisters that finally reclaims the forgotten Black members of their family. Sarah and Angelina Grimke—the Grimke sisters—are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most influential of the antebellum era, are still read today. Yet retellings of their epic story have long obscured their Black relatives. In The Grimkes, award-winning historian Kerri Greenidge presents a parallel narrative, indeed a long-overdue corrective, shifting the focus from the white abolitionist sisters to the Black Grimkes and deepening our understanding of the long struggle for racial and gender equality. That the Grimke sisters had Black relatives in the first place was a consequence of slavery’s most horrific reality. Sarah and Angelina’s older brother, Henry, was notoriously violent and sadistic, and one of the women he owned, Nancy Weston, bore him three sons: Archibald, Francis, and John. While Greenidge follows the brothers’ trials and exploits in the North, where Archibald and Francis became prominent members of the post–Civil War Black elite, her narrative centers on the Black women of the family, from Weston to Francis’s wife, the brilliant intellectual and reformer Charlotte Forten, to Archibald’s daughter, Angelina Weld Grimke, who channeled the family’s past into pathbreaking modernist literature during the Harlem Renaissance. In a grand saga that spans the eighteenth century to the twentieth and stretches from Charleston to Philadelphia, Boston, and beyond, Greenidge reclaims the Black Grimkes as complex, often conflicted individuals shadowed by their origins. Most strikingly, she indicts the white Grimke sisters for their racial paternalism. They could envision the end of slavery, but they could not imagine Black equality: when their Black nephews did not adhere to the image of the kneeling and eternally grateful slave, they were cruel and relentlessly judgmental—an emblem of the limits of progressive white racial politics. A landmark biography of the most important multiracial American family of the nineteenth century, The Grimkes suggests that just as the Hemingses and Jeffersons personified the racial myths of the founding generation, the Grimkes embodied the legacy—both traumatic and generative—of those myths, which reverberate to this day.

Book POLITICS FOR PLAIN DEMOCRATS

Download or read book POLITICS FOR PLAIN DEMOCRATS written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book FELLOW CITIZENS OF PENNSYLVANIA   CLASSIC REPRINT

Download or read book FELLOW CITIZENS OF PENNSYLVANIA CLASSIC REPRINT written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book African American Political Thought

Download or read book African American Political Thought written by Melvin L. Rogers and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American Political Thought offers an unprecedented philosophical history of thinkers from the African American community and African diaspora who have addressed the central issues of political life: democracy, race, violence, liberation, solidarity, and mass political action. Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner have brought together leading scholars to reflect on individual intellectuals from the past four centuries, developing their list with an expansive approach to political expression. The collected essays consider such figures as Martin Delany, Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Audre Lorde, whose works are addressed by scholars such as Farah Jasmin Griffin, Robert Gooding-Williams, Michael Dawson, Nick Bromell, Neil Roberts, and Lawrie Balfour. While African American political thought is inextricable from the historical movement of American political thought, this volume stresses the individuality of Black thinkers, the transnational and diasporic consciousness, and how individual speakers and writers draw on various traditions simultaneously to broaden our conception of African American political ideas. This landmark volume gives us the opportunity to tap into the myriad and nuanced political theories central to Black life. In doing so, African American Political Thought: A Collected History transforms how we understand the past and future of political thinking in the West.