03020nam 22006613u 450 991081532590332120240401155725.01-4616-4164-0(CKB)2550000001112016(EBL)1354791(OCoLC)856625379(SSID)ssj0000984934(PQKBManifestationID)12413580(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000984934(PQKBWorkID)11013465(PQKB)11222314(MiAaPQ)EBC1354791(EXLCZ)99255000000111201620140127d1990|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrRace and Revolution1st ed.Lanham Rowman & Littlefield Publishers19901 online resource (225 p.)The Merrill Jensen lectures in constitutional studies Race and revolution Description based upon print version of record.0-945612-11-7 1-299-80650-3 Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Foreword; Preface; CHAPTER ONE The Revolutionary Generation Embraces Abolitionism; CHAPTER TWO The Failure ofAbolitionism; CHAPTER THREE Black Americans in a White Republic; DOCUMENTS; Documents for Chapter One; Documents for Chapter Two; Documents for Chapter Three; Reading Further; IndexRace and Revolution is a trenchant study of the revolutionary generation's early efforts to right the apparent contradiction of slavery and of their ultimate compromises that not only left the institution intact, but provided it with the protection of a vastly strengthened government after 1788. Race and Revolution describes the free black community's response to this failure of the revolution's promise, its vigorous and articulate pleas for justice, and the community's successes in building its own African-American institutions within the hostile environment of early nineteenth-Antislavery movementsHistory18th centuryUnited StatesAbolitionistsHistoryTo 1863United StatesAfrican AmericansRegions & Countries - AmericasHILCCHistory & ArchaeologyHILCCUnited States - GeneralHILCCUnited StatesHistoryRevolution, 1775-1783African AmericansUnited StatesHistoryRevolution, 1775-1783Social aspectsUnited StatesHistoryConfederation, 1783-1789Antislavery movementsHistoryAbolitionistsHistoryAfrican AmericansRegions & Countries - AmericasHistory & ArchaeologyUnited States - General973/.0496073Nash Gary B626182AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910815325903321Race and Revolution4005213UNINA