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Force and Freedom - Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence (Paperback)
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Force and Freedom - Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence (Paperback)
Series: America in the Nineteenth Century
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From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist
movement adhered to principles of "moral suasion" and nonviolent
resistance as both religious tenet and political strategy. But by
the 1850s, the population of enslaved Americans had increased
exponentially, and such legislative efforts as the Fugitive Slave
Act and the Supreme Court's 1857 ruling in the Dred Scott case
effectively voided any rights black Americans held as enslaved or
free people. As conditions deteriorated for African Americans,
black abolitionist leaders embraced violence as the only means of
shocking Northerners out of their apathy and instigating an
antislavery war. In Force and Freedom, Kellie Carter Jackson
provides the first historical analysis exclusively focused on the
tactical use of violence among antebellum black activists. Through
rousing public speeches, the bourgeoning black press, and the
formation of militia groups, black abolitionist leaders mobilized
their communities, compelled national action, and drew
international attention. Drawing on the precedent and pathos of the
American and Haitian Revolutions, African American abolitionists
used violence as a political language and a means of provoking
social change. Through tactical violence, argues Carter Jackson,
black abolitionist leaders accomplished what white nonviolent
abolitionists could not: creating the conditions that necessitated
the Civil War. Force and Freedom takes readers beyond the honorable
politics of moral suasion and the romanticism of the Underground
Railroad and into an exploration of the agonizing decisions,
strategies, and actions of the black abolitionists who, though
lacking an official political voice, were nevertheless responsible
for instigating monumental social and political change.
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