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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813707903321

Autore

Rael Patrick

Titolo

Black identity & Black protest in the antebellum North [[electronic resource] /] / Patrick Rael

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002

ISBN

979-88-908717-5-6

0-8078-7503-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (435 p.)

Collana

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Disciplina

305.896073

974/.00496073

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-407) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Tables and Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Different Measure of Oppression; Besieged by Freedom's Army; The Sign of Things; Discipline of the Heart, Discipline of the Mind; Slaves to a Wicked Public Sentiment; A Nation out of a Nation; This Temple of Liberty; Conclusion; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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