African-American Activism Before the Civil War

Historians have long understood that racial oppression in American history was about more than slavery. 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 that far outstripped their number in the population. Their efforts at community building and radical protest were one force that helped bring the nation to the brink of Civil War, and ultimately led to the extinction of slavery. "African-American Activism before the Civil War" is the first to gather together scholarly essays published from 1965 to the present on the role of African Americans and race in the struggle for 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, anchored by a comprehensive, analytical introduction discussing the historiography of antebellum black activism, the best scholarship on this crucial minority of African American activists can now be studied together.

ISBN 0415957273   Pages 320 ISBN13 9780415957274 (What's this?)   Volumes 001 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 453 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 235 Publication date 01 Apr 2007   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress E185.18   Spine width (mm) 18 DEWEY 973.0496   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC22

		Foreword by James Brewer Stewart
		Introduction		1
1		The Emancipation of the Negro Abolitionist by Leon F. Litwack		39
2		Black Power - The Debate in 1840 by Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease		50
3		Elevating the Race: The Social Thought of Black Leaders, 1827-50 by Frederick Cooper		58
4		Black History's Antebellum Origins by Benjamin Quarles		78
5		"Since They Got Those Separate Churches": Afro-Americans and Racism in Jacksonian Philadelphia by Emma Jones Lapsansky		100
6		Interpreting Early Black Ideology: A Reappraisal of Historical Consensus by George A. Levesque		119
7		Afro-American Identity: Reflections on the Pre-Civil War Era by Ernest Allen, Jr.		134
8		Freedom's Yoke: Gender Conventions among Antebellum Free Blacks by James Oliver Horton		168
9		The Political Significance of Slave Resistance by James Oakes		188
10		"Ethiopia Shall Soon Stretch Forth Her Hands": Black Destiny in Nineteenth-Century America by Albert J. Raboteau		206
11		The Emergence of Racial Modernity and the Rise of the White North, 1790-1840 by James Brewer Stewart		220
12		From Abolitionist Amalgamators to "Rulers of the Five Points": The Discourse of Interracial Sex and Reform in Antebellum New York City by Leslie M. Harris		250
13		The Market Revolution and Market Values in Antebellum Black Protest Thought by Patrick Rael		272
		Index		297

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