African-American Pamphlets and Protest, 1790-1860

Between the Revolution and 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. 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. This is the first book to capture the depth of black print culture before the Civil War.

ISBN 0415924448   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780415924443 (What's this?)   Pages 320 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Volumes 1 Imprint Routledge   Weight (grammes) 816 Format Paperback   Published in London Publication date 23 Nov 2000   Height (mm) 246 Non-book description viii, 326 p. ;   Width (mm) 174 Library of Congress 00038254   Spine width (mm) 18 DEWEY 810.9896073   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Acknowledgments
		Introduction
1		A Narrative of the proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia (1794) by Absalom Jones and Richard Allen		32
2		A Charge (1797) by Prince Hall		44
3		A Dialogue Between a Virginian and an African Minister (1810) by Daniel Coker		52
4		Series of Letters by a Man of Colour (1813) by James Forten		66
5		An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1814) by Russell Parrott		74
6		An Address before the Pennsylvania Augustine Society (1818) by Prince Saunders		80
7		Ethiopian Manifesto (1829) by Robert Alexander Young		84
8		Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829, 1830) by David Walker		90
9		Address to the National Convention of 1834 (1834) by William Hamilton		110
10		Address Delivered Before the African Female Benevolent Society of Troy (1834) by Elizabeth Wicks		114
11		Productions (1835) by Maria W. Stewart		122
12		Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens, Threatened with Disfranchisement, to the People of Pennsylvania (1837) by Robert Purvis		132
13		New York Committee of Vigilance for the Year 1837, together with Important Facts Relative to Their Proceedings (1837) by David Ruggles		144
14		Address to the Slaves of the United States of America (1848) by Henry Highland Garnet		156
15		Proceedings of the National Convention of Colored People (1847)		166
16		Report of the Proceedings of the Colored National Convention ... held in Cleveland (1848)		178
17		Essay on the Character and Condition of the African Race (1852) by John W. Lewis		190
18		A Plea for Emigration, or Notes of Canada West (1852) by Mary Ann Shadd		198
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"The editors have provided a distinct service in assembling [the Pamphlets] and suggesting ways to explore their meanings..This useful collection may inspire a new generation...."-"Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 21 No. 3 "Finding 'freedom in print' when it could be found in few places, African American pamphleteers chronicled America in a way largely forgotten. through the twenty-five pamphlets reprinted here and an excelent introduction by the editors, "Pamphlets of Protestexposes a wold too rarely seen. Ideal for students, scholars, and all those seeking a broader vision of 'freedon' in America."-Norrece T. Jones, Jr., author of, i.Slavery and Antislavery: Race and Freedom Struggles in the Making of America "This is a first-rate anthology of the pivitoal yet neglected tradition of early balck pamphlets. It provides both an illuminating cross-section of the documents themselves and a highly readable as well as insightful history of theblack pamphlet tradition. An absolutely superb and engaging volume."-Waldo Martin, Professor of History, University of California Berkeley "This brillantly edited collection will be of invaluable assistance to students of Amreican social and intellectual history at every level. The editors have performed a valuable service by making these documents available in this convenient volume, while the introduction is a model of creativity, imagination, and intellecutal rigot."-Wilson J. Moses, Professor of History and Fellow in the Humanities, Pennsylvania State University "Spanning from the American Revolution through the Civil Wa, this volume brings together for the first time representative writings of thenation's most powerful and (too often)_most under-appreciated critics of slavery and white suppremacy. the editors supply such clear historical contexts for each of the documents, amd for the collection as a whole, that exerpts no less than beginners willfind their encounters with this work to be truly illuminating. For students of African American history, and literature, PAMPHLETS OF PROTEST is simply is simply indispensable."-James Brewer Stewart, James Wallace Professor of History, Macalester College

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