African-American activism before the Civil War : the freedom struggle in the antebellum North

African-American activism before the Civil War : the freedom struggle in the antebellum North / edited by Patrick Rael.

Other author/creator	Rael, Patrick.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New York : Routledge, 2008.
Description	viii, 307 pages ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content	Publisher description
Subject(s)	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.

Contents	The emancipation of the negro abolitionist / Leon F. Litwack -- Black power- the debate in 1840 / Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease -- Elevating the race: the social thought of black leaders, 1827-50 / Fredrick Cooper -- Black history's antebellum origins / Benjamin Quarles -- "Since they got those separate churches": Afro-Americans and racism in Jacksonian Philadelphia / Emma Jones Lapsansky -- Interpreting early black ideology: a reappraisal of historical consensus / George A. Levesque -- Afro-American identity: reflections on the pre-civil war era / Ernest Allen, Jr. -- Freedom's yoke: gender conventions among antebellum free blacks / James Oliver Horton -- The political significance of slave resistance / James Oakes -- "Ethiopia shall soon stretch forth her hands": black destiny in nineteenth-century America / Albert J. Raboteau -- The emergence of racial modernity and the rise of the white north, 1790-1840 / James Brewer Stewart -- From abolitionist amalgamators to "rulers of the five points": the discourse of interracial sex and reform in antebellum New York City / Leslie M. Harris -- The market revolution and market values in antebellum black protest thought / Patrick Rael.
Local note	Little-358371--305131063747/
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2007037757
ISBN	9780415957267
ISBN	0415957265
ISBN	9780415957274 (pbk.)
ISBN	0415957273 (pbk.)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	E185.18 .A37 2008	✔ Available	Place Hold