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Taylor & Francis Ltd African-American Activism Before The Civil Warthe Freedom Struggle In The Antebellum North 2008 Edition by Patrick Rael
African-American Activism before the Civil War is the first collection of scholarship on the role of African Americans in the struggle for racial 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 for the first time, anchored by a comprehensive, analytical introduction discussing the historiography of antebellum black activism, the best scholarship on this crucial group of African American activists can finally be studied together. Table of ContentsPreface by Mia BayIntroduction, by Patrick RaelChapter 1: "Emancipation of the Negro Abolitionist", Leon LitwackChapter 2: "Black Power-The Debate in 1840", Jane H. Pease, William H. PeaseChapter 3: "Elevating the Race: The Social Thought of Black Leaders, 1827-1850", Frederick CooperChapter 4: "Black History's Antebellum Origins", Benjamin QuarlesChapter 5: "Since They Got Those Separate Churches: Afro-Americans and Racism in Jacksonian Philadelphia", Emma Jones LapsanskyChapter 6: "Interpreting Early Black Ideology: A Reappraisal of Historical Consensus", George A. LevesqueChapter 7: "Afro-American Identity: Reflections on the Pre-Civil War Era", Ernest Allen, Jr. Chapter 8: "Freedom's Yoke: Gender Conventions among Antebellum Free Blacks," James Oliver HortonChapter 9: "The Political Significance of Slave Resistance", James OakesChapter 10: "It was a Proud Day: African Americans, Festivals, and Parades in the North, 1741-1834", Shane WhiteChapter 11: "Ethiopia Shall Soon Stretch Forth Her Hands: Black Destiny in Nineteenth-Century America", Albert RaboteauChapter 12: "The Emergence of Racial Modernity and the Rise of the White North, 1790-1840", James Brewer StewartChapter 13: "From Abolitionist Amalgamators to 'Rulers of the Five Points': The Discourse of Interracial Sex and Reform in Antebellum New York City," Leslie M. HarrisChapter 14: "The Redeemer Race and the Angry Saxon: Race, Gender, and White People in Antebellum Black Ethnology," Mia BayChapter 15: "The Market Revolution and Market Values in Antebellum Black Protest Thought", Patrick RaelFor Further Reading