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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Ray Angela G"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Free Black Charlestonians in Debate : The Complete Proceedings of the Clionian Debating Society, 1847-1858"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Columbia : , : University of South Carolina Press, , 2025"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©2025"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-64336-580-0"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[1st ed.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (216 pages)"]
[null,null,"Classificazione",null,"HIS056000LAN015000"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"808.5306/0757915"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Debates and debating - South Carolina - Charleston - Societies, etc"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Free African Americans - South Carolina - Charleston - Societies, etc"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Debates and debating - South Carolina - Charleston - History - 19th century"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Free African Americans - South Carolina - Charleston - Intellectual life - 19th century"]
[{"$nulls":4},"HISTORY / African American & Black"]
[{"$nulls":4},"LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Records (Documents)"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Cover -- Free Black Charlestonians in Debate -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Performing Freedom on Slavery's Hearth -- Note on Transcription -- Proceedings of the Clionian Debating Society, November 5, 1847-January 14, 1858 -- 1847 -- 1848 -- 1849 -- 1850 -- 1851 -- 1852 -- 1853 -- 1854 -- 1855 -- 1856 -- 1857 -- 1858 -- Appendix A Members, Honorary Members, and Supporters -- Appendix B Debating Questions and Decisions -- Appendix C Orations -- Appendix D Publications Acquired for Society Library -- Further Reading -- Index."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","\"The comprehensive, never-before-published records of a debating society run by free Black men From 1847 until 1858, when \"political disadvantages\" prompted its dissolution, the Clionian Debating Society, a group of free Black men, met regularly in Charleston, South Carolina. Reconstruction-era leaders such as Henry Cardozo, who would serve in the SC state legislature, and Simeon W. Beaird, who was elected to Georgia's state constitutional convention in 1867, were among its membership.Free Black Charlestonians in Debate brings together the "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Clionian Society's minutes in a comprehensive scholarly edition, reuniting the two original handwritten volumes that are now housed in the collections of the Charleston Library Society and Duke University. The annotated transcription is supported by an introduction, appendixes summarizing key features of the society's membership and operations, recommendations for further reading, and an index. Made easily accessible for the first time, these minutes represent an important piece of Black intellectual history that offers insight into the educational training of young men of the free Black community in antebellum Charleston, some of whom became religious and political leaders in the Reconstruction South\"--"]
[{"$nulls":4},"\"The comprehensive, never-before-published records of a debating society run by free Black men. From 1847 until 1858, when \"political disadvantages\" prompted its dissolution, the Clionian Debating Society, a group of free Black men, met regularly in Charleston, South Carolina. Reconstruction-era leaders such as Henry Cardozo, who would serve in the SC state legislature, and Simeon W. Beaird, who was elected to Georgia's state constitutional convention in 1867, were among its membership. Free Black Charlestonians in Debate brings together the Clionian Society's minutes in a comprehensive scholarly edition, reuniting the two original handwritten volumes that are now housed in the collections of the Charleston Library Society and Duke University. The annotated transcription is supported by an introduction, appendixes summarizing key features of the society's membership and operations, recommendations for further reading, and an index. Made easily accessible for the first time, these minutes represent an important piece of Black intellectual history that offers insight into the educational training of young men of the free Black community in antebellum Charleston, some of whom became religious and political leaders in the Reconstruction South\"--"]