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Black identity and Black protest in the antebellum North /

In this text 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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rael, Patrick
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
African Americans > Race identity > Northeastern States.
African Americans > Northeastern States > Intellectual life > 19th century.
African Americans > History > To 1863.
Free African Americans > Northeastern States > History > 19th century.
African American leadership > Northeastern States > History > 19th century.
Protest movements > Northeastern States > History > 20th century.
Northeastern States > Race relations.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0807875031
9780807875032
9780807826386
0807826383
9780807849675
0807849677
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Of Men, Lions, and History
  • A Different Measure of Oppression: Leadership and Identity in the Black North
  • Besieged by Freedom's Army: Antislavery Celebrations and Black Activism
  • The Sign of Things: The "Names Controversy" and Black Identity
  • Discipline of the Heart, Discipline of the Mind: The Sources of Black Social Thought
  • Slaves to a Wicked Public Sentiment: Black Respectability and the Response to Prejudice
  • A Nation Out of a Nation: Black Nationalism as Nationalism
  • This Temple of Liberty: Black Racialism and American Identity
  • Conclusion: Black Protest and the Continuing Revolution.

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