African-American Activism Before the Civil War : The Freedom Struggle in the Antebellum North (Paperback)

Table of Contents Preface by Mia Bay Introduction, by Patrick Rael Chapter 1: "Emancipation of the Negro Abolitionist", Leon Litwack Chapter 2: "Black Power?The Debate in 1840", Jane H. Pease, William H. Pease Chapter 3: "Elevating the Race: The Social Thought of Black Leaders, 1827-1850", Frederick Cooper Chapter 4: "Black History’s Antebellum Origins", Benjamin Quarles Chapter 5: "Since They Got Those Separate Churches: Afro-Americans and Racism in Jacksonian Philadelphia", Emma Jones Lapsansky Chapter 6: "Interpreting Early Black Ideology: A Reappraisal of Historical Consensus", George A. Levesque Chapter 7: "Afro-American Identity: Reflections on the Pre-Civil War Era", Ernest Allen, Jr. Chapter 8: "Freedom’s Yoke: Gender Conventions among Antebellum Free Blacks," James Oliver Horton Chapter 9: "The Political Significance of Slave Resistance", James Oakes Chapter 10: "It was a Proud Day: African Americans, Festivals, and Parades in the North, 1741-1834", Shane White Chapter 11: "Ethiopia Shall Soon Stretch Forth Her Hands: Black Destiny in Nineteenth-Century America", Albert Raboteau Chapter 12: "The Emergence of Racial Modernity and the Rise of the White North, 1790-1840", James Brewer Stewart Chapter 13: "From Abolitionist Amalgamators to ‘Rulers of the Five Points’: The Discourse of Interracial Sex and Reform in Antebellum New York City," Leslie M. Harris Chapter 14: "The Redeemer Race and the Angry Saxon: Race, Gender, and White People in Antebellum Black Ethnology," Mia Bay Chapter 15: "The Market Revolution and Market Values in Antebellum Black Protest Thought", Patrick Rael For Further Reading