African-American activism before the Civil War
Subtitle: the freedom struggle in the antebellum North
By: edited by Patrick Rael.
Contributors: Rael, Patrick.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780415957267; 9780415957274
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century; Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century; African American abolitionists -- History -- 19th century; African American civil rights workers -- History -- 19th century; African American political activists -- History -- 19th century; African American leadership -- History -- 19th century; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; African Americans -- Politics and government -- 19th century; United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century; Northeastern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The emancipation of the negro abolitionist / Leon F. Litwack; title: Black power- the debate in 1840 / Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease; title: Elevating the race: the social thought of black leaders, 1827-50 / Fredrick Cooper; title: Black history's antebellum origins / Benjamin Quarles; title: "Since they got those separate churches": Afro-Americans and racism in Jacksonian Philadelphia / Emma Jones Lapsansky; title: Interpreting early black ideology: a reappraisal of historical consensus / George A. Levesque; title: Afro-American identity: reflections on the pre-civil war era / Ernest Allen, Jr.; title: Freedom's yoke: gender conventions among antebellum free blacks / James Oliver Horton; title: The political significance of slave resistance / James Oakes; title: "Ethiopia shall soon stretch forth her hands": black destiny in nineteenth-century America / Albert J. Raboteau; title: The emergence of racial modernity and the rise of the white north, 1790-1840 / James Brewer Stewart; title: From abolitionist amalgamators to "rulers of the five points": the discourse of interracial sex and reform in antebellum New York City / Leslie M. Harris; title: The market revolution and market values in antebellum black protest thought / Patrick Rael.