Author: Alfred M. GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Letters and Discussion on the Formation of Colored Regiments and the Duty of the Colored People in Regard to the Great Slaveholders' Rebellion, in the United States of America
Author: Alfred M. GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Fighting for the Higher Law
Author: Peter WirzbickiPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081229789X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
In Fighting for the Higher Law, Peter Wirzbicki explores how important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political philosophy that fired the radical struggle against American slavery. In the cauldron of the antislavery movement, antislavery activists, such as William C. Nell, Thomas Sidney, and Charlotte Forten, and Transcendentalist intellectuals, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, developed a "Higher Law" ethos, a unique set of romantic political sensibilities—marked by moral enthusiasms, democratic idealism, and a vision of the self that could judge political questions from "higher" standards of morality and reason. The Transcendentalism that emerges here is not simply the dreamy philosophy of privileged white New Englanders, but a more populist movement, one that encouraged an uncompromising form of politics among a wide range of Northerners, black as well as white, working-class as well as wealthy. Invented to fight slavery, it would influence later labor, feminist, civil rights, and environmentalist activism. African American thinkers and activists have long engaged with American Transcendentalist ideas about "double consciousness," nonconformity, and civil disobedience. When thinkers like Martin Luther King, Jr., or W. E. B. Du Bois invoked Transcendentalist ideas, they were putting to use an intellectual movement that black radicals had participated in since the 1830s.
The Black Abolitionist Papers
Author: C. Peter RipleyPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This five-volume documentary collection--culled from an international archival search that turned up over 14,000 letters, speeches, pamphlets, essays, and newspaper editorials--reveals how black abolitionists represented the core of the antislavery movement. While the first two volumes consider black abolitionists in the British Isles and Canada (the home of some 60,000 black Americans on the eve of the Civil War), the remaining volumes examine the activities and opinions of black abolitionists in the United States from 1830 until the end of the Civil War. In particular, these volumes focus on their reactions to African colonization and the idea of gradual emancipation, the Fugitive Slave Law, and the promise brought by emancipation during the war.
The 28th United States Colored Troops
Author: William R. ForstchenPublisher:
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Category : African American soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Teaching with Documents
Author: Writings on American History, 1962-73
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
This book "provides a comprehensive listing of the book-length works published from 1962 to 1973 that are relevant to the study of American history [and is] organized into a subject classification system. This bibliography gives access to over 50,000 works on the history, the geography, and the political, social, and economic aspects of the United States, its people, its government, and its institutions. The entries cover the entire area now within the United States or under its jurisdiction, ranging from prehistoric times to 1973"--Introd.
Black Soldiers - Black Sailors - Black Ink
Author: Thomas Truxtun MoebsPublisher:
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Category : African American sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 1752
Book Description
The Black Abolitionist Papers: The United States, 1859-1865
Author: C. Peter RipleyPublisher: UNC Press
ISBN: 9780807820070
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
A collection of documents tracing the struggle for Blacks to gain their freedom from slavery
The Black Abolitionist Papers: The United States, 1859-1865
Author: Library of Congress Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.