Minutes And Proceedings Of The Annual Convention Of The People Of Colour Held By Adjournments

Author : Convention of the People of Colour
Publisher : Palala Press
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Category : History
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Minutes and Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the People of Colour: Held by Adjournments by Convention of the People of Colour Pdf

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Author : Convention for the Improvement of the Fr
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 38 pages
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Release : 2018-03-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1379105587

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Minutes and Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention for the Improvement of the Free People of Colour in These United States by Convention for the Improvement of the Fr Pdf

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Author : Beriah Green,Charles Stuart,David Walker,Elizur Wright,Francis Gillette,John Quincy Adams,Roger Sherman Baldwin,Samuel E. Cornish,Theodore Dwight Weld,William Lloyd Garrison,William Yates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 1830
Category : African Americans
ISBN : LCCN:11020221

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Minutes and Proceedings of the Third Annual Convention, for the Improvement of the Free People of Colour in These United States, by Beriah Green,Charles Stuart,David Walker,Elizur Wright,Francis Gillette,John Quincy Adams,Roger Sherman Baldwin,Samuel E. Cornish,Theodore Dwight Weld,William Lloyd Garrison,William Yates Pdf

Author : Julie Winch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 532 pages
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Release : 2003-06-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195347455

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A Gentleman of Color by Julie Winch Pdf

Winch has written the first full-length biography of James Forten, a hero of African American history and one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America. Born into a free black family in 1766, Forten served in the Revolutionary War as a teenager. By 1810 he had earned the distinction of being the leading sailmaker in Philadelphia. Soon after Forten emerged as a leader in Philadelphia's black community and was active in a wide range of reform activities. Especially prominent in national and international antislavery movements, he served as vice-president of the American Anti-Slavery Society and became close friends with William Lloyd Garrison to whom he lent money to start up the Liberator. His family were all active abolitionists and a granddaughter, Charlotte Forten, published a famous diary of her experiences teaching ex-slaves in South Carolina's Sea Islands during the Civil War. This is the first serious biography of Forten, who stands beside Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Martin Luther King, Jr., in the pantheon of African Americans who fundamentally shaped American history.

Author : P. Gabrielle Foreman,Jim Casey,Sarah Lynn Patterson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469654270

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The Colored Conventions Movement by P. Gabrielle Foreman,Jim Casey,Sarah Lynn Patterson Pdf

This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. Well before the founding of the NAACP and other twentieth-century pillars of the civil rights movement, tens of thousands of Black leaders organized state and national conventions across North America. Over seven decades, they advocated for social justice and against slavery, protesting state-sanctioned and mob violence while demanding voting, legal, labor, and educational rights. While Black-led activism in this era is often overshadowed by the attention paid to the abolition movement, this collection centers Black activist networks, influence, and institution building. Collectively, these essays highlight the vital role of the Colored Conventions in the lives of thousands of early organizers, including many of the most famous writers, ministers, politicians, and entrepreneurs in the long history of Black activism. Contributors: Erica L. Ball, Kabria Baumgartner, Daina Ramey Berry, Joan L. Bryant, Jim Casey, Benjamin Fagan, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Eric Gardner, Andre E. Johnson, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Sarah Lynn Patterson, Carla L. Peterson, Jean Pfaelzer, Selena R. Sanderfer, Derrick R. Spires, Jermaine Thibodeaux, Psyche Williams-Forson, and Jewon Woo. Explore accompanying exhibits and historical records at The Colored Conventions Project website: https://coloredconventions.org/

Author : Patrick Rael
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807875032

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Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North by Patrick Rael Pdf

Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany--these figures stand out in the annals of black protest for their vital antislavery efforts. But what of the rest of their generation, the thousands of other free blacks in the North? 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. In so doing, he reveals the roots of the arguments that still resound in the struggle for justice today. Mining sources that include newspapers and pamphlets of the black national press, speeches and sermons, slave narratives and personal memoirs, Rael recovers the voices of an extraordinary range of black leaders in the first half of the nineteenth century. He traces how these activists constructed a black American identity through their participation in the discourse of the public sphere and how this identity in turn informed their critiques of a nation predicated on freedom but devoted to white supremacy. His analysis explains how their place in the industrializing, urbanizing antebellum North offered black leaders a unique opportunity to smooth over class and other tensions among themselves and successfully galvanize the race against slavery.

Author : Manisha Sinha,Penny Marie Von Eschen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9780231141109

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Contested Democracy by Manisha Sinha,Penny Marie Von Eschen Pdf

With essays on U.S. history ranging from the American Revolution to the dawn of the twenty-first century, Contested Democracy illuminates struggles waged over freedom and citizenship throughout the American past. Guided by a commitment to democratic citizenship and responsible scholarship, the contributors to this volume insist that rigorous engagement with history is essential to a vital democracy, particularly amid the current erosion of human rights and civil liberties within the United States and abroad. Emphasizing the contradictory ways in which freedom has developed within the United States and in the exercise of American power abroad, these essays probe challenges to American democracy through conflicts shaped by race, slavery, gender, citizenship, political economy, immigration, law, empire, and the idea of the nation state. In this volume, writers demonstrate how opposition to the expansion of democracy has shaped the American tradition as much as movements for social and political change. By foregrounding those who have been marginalized in U.S society as well as the powerful, these historians and scholars argue for an alternative vision of American freedom that confronts the limitations, failings, and contradictions of U.S. power. Their work provides crucial insight into the role of the United States in this latest age of American empire and the importance of different and oppositional visions of American democracy and freedom. At a time of intense disillusionment with U.S. politics and of increasing awareness of the costs of empire, these contributors argue that responsible historical scholarship can challenge the blatant manipulation of discourses on freedom. They call for careful and conscientious scholarship not only to illuminate contemporary problems but also to act as a bulwark against mythmaking in the service of cynical political ends.

Author : Van Gosse
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 759 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469660110

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The First Reconstruction by Van Gosse Pdf

It may be difficult to imagine that a consequential black electoral politics evolved in the United States before the Civil War, for as of 1860, the overwhelming majority of African Americans remained in bondage. Yet free black men, many of them escaped slaves, steadily increased their influence in electoral politics over the course of the early American republic. Despite efforts to disfranchise them, black men voted across much of the North, sometimes in numbers sufficient to swing elections. In this meticulously-researched book, Van Gosse offers a sweeping reappraisal of the formative era of American democracy from the Constitution's ratification through Abraham Lincoln's election, chronicling the rise of an organized, visible black politics focused on the quest for citizenship, the vote, and power within the free states. Full of untold stories and thorough examinations of political battles, this book traces a First Reconstruction of black political activism following emancipation in the North. From Portland, Maine and New Bedford, Massachusetts to Brooklyn and Cleveland, black men operated as voting blocs, denouncing the notion that skin color could define citizenship.

Author : Laura E. Free
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501701092

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Suffrage Reconstructed by Laura E. Free Pdf

The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, identified all legitimate voters as "male." In so doing, it added gender-specific language to the U.S. Constitution for the first time. Suffrage Reconstructed is the first book to consider how and why the amendment's authors made this decision. Vividly detailing congressional floor bickering and activist campaigning, Laura E. Free takes readers into the pre- and postwar fights over precisely who should have the right to vote. Free demonstrates that all men, black and white, were the ultimate victors of these fights, as gender became the single most important marker of voting rights during Reconstruction. Free argues that the Fourteenth Amendment's language was shaped by three key groups: African American activists who used ideas about manhood to claim black men's right to the ballot, postwar congressmen who sought to justify enfranchising southern black men, and women’s rights advocates who began to petition Congress for the ballot for the first time as the Amendment was being drafted. To prevent women’s inadvertent enfranchisement, and to incorporate formerly disfranchised black men into the voting polity, the Fourteenth Amendment’s congressional authors turned to gender to define the new American voter. Faced with this exclusion some woman suffragists, most notably Elizabeth Cady Stanton, turned to rhetorical racism in order to mount a campaign against sex as a determinant of one’s capacity to vote. Stanton’s actions caused a rift with Frederick Douglass and a schism in the fledgling woman suffrage movement. By integrating gender analysis and political history, Suffrage Reconstructed offers a new interpretation of the Civil War–era remaking of American democracy, placing African American activists and women’s rights advocates at the heart of nineteenth-century American conversations about public policy, civil rights, and the franchise.

Author : Craig Steven Wilder
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814795347

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In The Company Of Black Men by Craig Steven Wilder Pdf

Traces the development of African-American community traditions over three centuries From the subaltern assemblies of the enslaved in colonial New York City to the benevolent New York African Society of the early national era to the formation of the African Blood Brotherhood in twentieth century Harlem, voluntary associations have been a fixture of African-American communities. In the Company of Black Men examines New York City over three centuries to show that enslaved Africans provided the institutional foundation upon which African-American religious, political, and social culture could flourish. Arguing that the universality of the voluntary tradition in African-American communities has its basis in collectivism—a behavioral and rhetorical tendency to privilege the group over the individual—it explores the institutions that arose as enslaved Africans exploited the potential for group action and mass resistance. Craig Steven Wilder’s research is particularly exciting in its assertion that Africans entered the Americas equipped with intellectual traditions and sociological models that facilitated a communitarian response to oppression. Presenting a dramatic shift from previous work which has viewed African-American male associations as derivative and imitative of white male counterparts, In the Company of Black Men provides a ground-breaking template for investigating antebellum black institutions.

Author : Convention for the Improvement of the Free People of Colour
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : African Americans
ISBN : IND:32000002269597

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Minutes and Proceedings of the Third Annual Convention, for the Improvement of the Free People of Colour in These United States by Convention for the Improvement of the Free People of Colour Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0271043024

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The Elite of Our People: Joseph Willson's Sketches of Black Upper-Class Life in Antebellum Philadelphia by Anonim Pdf

Sketches of the Higher Classes of Colored Society in Philadelphia, first published in 1841, was written by Joseph Willson, a southern black man who had moved to Philadelphia. He wrote this book to convince whites that the African-American community in his adopted city did indeed have a class structure, and he offers advice to his black readers about how they should use their privileged status. The significance of Willson's account lies in its sophisticated analysis of the issues of class and race in Philadelphia. It is all the more important in that it predates W. E. B. Du Bois's The Philadelphia Negro by more than half a century. Julie Winch has written a substantial introduction and prepared extensive annotation. She identifies the people Willson wrote about and gives readers a sense of Philadelphia's multifaceted and richly textured African American community. The Elite of Our People will interest urban, antebellum, and African-American historians, as well as individuals with a general interest in African-American history. This volume has withstood the test of time. It remains readable. Joseph Willson was well read, articulate, and had a keen eye for detail. His message is as timely today as it was in 1841. The people he wrote about were remarkable individuals whose lives were as complex as his own.

Author : Martha S. Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107150348

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Birthright Citizens by Martha S. Jones Pdf

Explains the origins of the Fourteenth Amendment's birthright citizenship provision, as a story of black Americans' pre-Civil War claims to belonging.

Author : Leslie M. Harris
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226824864

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In the Shadow of Slavery by Leslie M. Harris Pdf

A new edition of a classic work revealing the little-known history of African Americans in New York City before Emancipation. The popular understanding of the history of slavery in America almost entirely ignores the institution’s extensive reach in the North. But the cities of the North were built by—and became the home of—tens of thousands of enslaved African Americans, many of whom would continue to live there as free people after Emancipation. In the Shadow of Slavery reveals the history of African Americans in the nation’s largest metropolis, New York City. Leslie M. Harris draws on travel accounts, autobiographies, newspapers, literature, and organizational records to extend prior studies of racial discrimination. She traces the undeniable impact of African Americans on class distinctions, politics, and community formation by offering vivid portraits of the lives and aspirations of countless black New Yorkers. This new edition includes an afterword by the author addressing subsequent research and the ongoing arguments over how slavery and its legacy should be taught, memorialized, and acknowledged by governments.

Author : Leslie M. Alexander
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252078538

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African Or American? by Leslie M. Alexander Pdf

The struggle for black identity in antebellum New York