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Race and Revolution (Paperback, New)
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The most profound crisis of conscience for white Americans at the
end of the eighteenth century became their most tragic failure.
Race 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. Reversing the conventional view
that blames slavery on the South's social and economic structures,
Nash stresses the role of the northern states in the failure to
abolish slavery. It was northern racism and hypocrisy as much as
southern intransigence that buttressed "the peculiar institution."
Nash also shows how economic and cultural factors intertwined to
result not in an apparently judicious decision of the new American
nation but rather its most significant lost opportunity. 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-century America. Included with the text of Race
and Revolution are nineteen rare and crucial documents-letters,
pamphlets, sermons, and speeches-which provide evidence for Nash's
controversial and persuasive claims. From the words of Anthony
Benezet and Luther Martin to those of Absalom Jones and Caesar
Sarter, readers may judge the historical record for themselves. "In
reality," argues Nash, "the American Revolution represents the
largest slave uprising in our history." Race and Revolution is the
compelling story of that failed quest for the promise of freedom.
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