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Title

Pamphlets of protest : an anthology of early African-American protest literature, 1790-1860 / edited by Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, and Philip Lapsansky.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Newman, Richard, 1930-
• Rael, Patrick.
• Lapsansky, Phillip.

Description

viii, 326 p.; 27 cm.

Subject

• African-Americans > Civil rights > History > 18th century > Sources
• African-Americans > Civil rights > History > 19th century > Sources
• African-Americans > Politics and government > 18th century > Sources
• African-Americans > Politics and government > 19th century > Sources
• Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century > Sources
• Protest literature, American

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 27-31) and index.

Contents

A narrative of the proceedings of the Black people during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia (1794) / Absalom Jones and Richard Allen -- A charge (1797) / Prince Hall -- A dialogue between a Virginian and an African minister (1810) / Daniel Coker -- Series of letters by a man of colour (1813) / James Forten -- An oration on the abolition of the slave trade (1814) / Russell Parrott -- An address before the Pennsylvania Augustine Society (1818) / Prince Saunders -- Ethiopian manifesto (1829) / Robert Alexander Young -- Appeal to the colored citizens of the world (1829, 1830) / David Walker --Address to the National Convention of 1834 (1834) / William Hamilton -- Address delivered before the African Female Society of Troy (1834) / Elizabeth Wicks -- Productions (1835) / Maria W. Stewart -- Appeal of forty thousand citizens, threatened with disfranchisement, to the people of Pennsylvania (1837) / Robert Purvis -- New York Committee of Vigilance for the year 1837, together with important facts relative to their proceedings (1837) / David Ruggles -- Address to the slaves of the United States of America (1848) / Henry Highland Garnet -- Proceedings of the National Convention of Colored People (1847) -- Report of the proceedings of the Colored National Convention...held in California (1848) -- Essay on the character and condition of the African race (1852) / John W. Lewis -- A plea for emigration, or notes of Canada West (1852) / Mary Ann Shadd -- Address to the people of the United States (1853) / Frederick Douglass, et al. -- Political destiny of the colored race on the American continent (1854) / Martin Delany -- The history of the Haitian Revolution (1855) / William Wells Brown -- An appeal to the females of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (1857) / Mary Still -- A vindication of the capacity of the Negro for self-governement and civilized progress (1857) / J. Theodore Holly -- The English language in Liberia (1861) / Alexander Crummell -- Negro self-respect and pride of race (1862) / T. Morris Chester.

Call Number

Sc E 01-376

ISBN

• 041592443X (alk. paper)
• 0415924448 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

00038254

OCLC

43798517

Title

Pamphlets of protest : an anthology of early African-American protest literature, 1790-1860 / edited by Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, and Philip Lapsansky.

Imprint

New York : Routledge, 2001.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 27-31) and index.

Added Author

Newman, Richard, 1930-

Rael, Patrick.

Lapsansky, Phillip.

Research Call Number

Sc E 01-376