Early black protest thought and its contribution to black
self-definition; Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany
- these figures stand out in the annals of black protest for their
vital antislavery efforts. But what of the rest of their
generation, the thousands of other free blacks in the North?
Patrick Rael explores the tradition of protest and sense of racial
identity forged by both famous and lesser-known black leaders in
antebellum America and illuminates the ideas that united these
activists across a wide array of divisions. In so doing, he reveals
the roots of the arguments that still resound in the struggle for
justice today. Mining sources that include newspapers and pamphlets
of the black national press, speeches and sermons, slave narratives
and personal memoirs, Rael recovers the voices of an extraordinary
range of black leaders in the first half of the nineteenth century.
He traces how these activists constructed a black American identity
through their participation in the discourse of the public sphere
and how this identity in turn informed their critiques of a nation
predicated on freedom but devoted to white supremacy. His analysis
explains how their place in the industrializing, urbanizing
antebellum North offered black leaders a unique opportunity to
smooth over class and other tensions among themselves and
successfully galvanize the race against slavery.
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