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With contributions from leading American and European scholars,
this collection of original essays surveys the actors and the modes
of writing history from the "margins" of society, focusing
specifically on African Americans. Nearly 100 years after The
Journal of Negro History was founded, this book assesses the legacy
of the African American historians, mostly amateur historians
initially, who wrote the history of their community between the
1830s and World War II. Subsequently, the growth of the civil
rights movement further changed historical paradigms--and the place
of African Americans and that of black writers in publishing and in
the historical profession. Through slavery and segregation,
self-educated and formally educated Blacks wrote works of history,
often in order to inscribe African Americans within the main
historical narrative of the nation, with a two-fold objective: to
make African Americans proud of their past and to enable them to
fight against white prejudice. Over the past decade, historians
have turned to the study of these pioneers, but a number of issues
remain to be considered. This anthology will contribute to
answering several key questions concerning who published these
books, and how were they distributed, read, and received. Little
has been written concerning what they reveal about the construction
of professional history in the nineteenth century when examined in
relation to other writings by Euro-Americans working in an academic
setting or as independent researchers.
With contributions from leading American and European scholars,
this collection of original essays surveys the actors and the modes
of writing history from the "margins" of society, focusing
specifically on African Americans. Nearly 100 years after The
Journal of Negro History was founded, this book assesses the legacy
of the African American historians, mostly amateur historians
initially, who wrote the history of their community between the
1830s and World War II. Subsequently, the growth of the civil
rights movement further changed historical paradigms--and the place
of African Americans and that of black writers in publishing and in
the historical profession. Through slavery and segregation,
self-educated and formally educated Blacks wrote works of history,
often in order to inscribe African Americans within the main
historical narrative of the nation, with a two-fold objective: to
make African Americans proud of their past and to enable them to
fight against white prejudice. Over the past decade, historians
have turned to the study of these pioneers, but a number of issues
remain to be considered. This anthology will contribute to
answering several key questions concerning who published these
books, and how were they distributed, read, and received. Little
has been written concerning what they reveal about the construction
of professional history in the nineteenth century when examined in
relation to other writings by Euro-Americans working in an academic
setting or as independent researchers.
Covering the whole of the nineteenth century, Wanted! A Nation!
reveals how Haiti remained a focus of attention for white as well
as Black Americans before, during, and even after the Civil War.
Before the Civil War, Claire Bourhis-Mariotti argues, the Black
republic was considered by free Black Americans as a place where
full citizenship was at hand. Haiti was essentially viewed and
concretely experienced as a refuge during moments when free Black
Americans lost hope of obtaining rights in the United States. Haiti
is also at the heart of this book, as Haitian leaders supported the
American emigration to Haiti (in the 1820s and early 1860s),
opposed the American geostrategic and diplomatic diktats in the
1870s and 1880s, and finally offered an international platform to
Frederick Douglass at the 1893 Columbian World’s Fair, thus
helping Black people who faced discrimination at home to fight
first against slavery and the slave trade, and then for equal
rights. By spanning the entire nineteenth century, Wanted! A
Nation! presents a complex panorama of the emergence of African
American identity and argues that Haiti should be considered as an
essential prism to understand how African Americans forged their
identity in the nineteenth century. Drawing on a variety of
sources, Wanted! A Nation! goes far beyond the usual framework of
national American history and contributes to the writing of an
Atlantic and global history of the struggle for equal rights. By
spanning the entire nineteenth century, Wanted! A Nation! presents
a complex panorama of the emergence of African American identity
and argues that Haiti should be considered as an essential prism to
understand how African Americans forged their identity in the
nineteenth century. Drawing on a variety of sources, Wanted! A
Nation! goes far beyond the usual framework of national American
history and contributes to the writing of an Atlantic and global
history of the struggle for equal rights.
In Search of Liberty explores how African Americans, since the
founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for
freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. The essays in this
volume capture the pursuits of equality and justice by African
Americans across the Atlantic World through the end of the
nineteenth century, as their fights for emancipation and
enfranchisement in the United States continued. This book
illuminates stories of individual Black people striving to escape
slavery in places like Nova Scotia, Louisiana, and Mexico and
connects their eff orts to emigration movements from the United
States to Africa and the Caribbean, as well as to Black
abolitionist campaigns in Europe. By placing these diverse stories
in conversation, editors Ronald Angelo Johnson and Ousmane K.
Power-Greene have curated a larger story that is only beginning to
be told. By focusing on Black internationalism in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries, In Search of Liberty reveals that Black
freedom struggles in the United States were rooted in transnational
networks much earlier than the better-known movements of the
twentieth century.
In Search of Liberty explores how African Americans, since the
founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for
freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. The essays in this
volume capture the pursuits of equality and justice by African
Americans across the Atlantic World through the end of the
nineteenth century, as their fights for emancipation and
enfranchisement in the United States continued. This book
illuminates stories of individual Black people striving to escape
slavery in places like Nova Scotia, Louisiana, and Mexico and
connects their eff orts to emigration movements from the United
States to Africa and the Caribbean, as well as to Black
abolitionist campaigns in Europe. By placing these diverse stories
in conversation, editors Ronald Angelo Johnson and Ousmane K.
Power-Greene have curated a larger story that is only beginning to
be told. By focusing on Black internationalism in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries, In Search of Liberty reveals that Black
freedom struggles in the United States were rooted in transnational
networks much earlier than the better-known movements of the
twentieth century.
Covering the whole of the nineteenth century, Wanted! A Nation!
reveals how Haiti remained a focus of attention for white as well
as Black Americans before, during, and even after the Civil War.
Before the Civil War, Claire Bourhis-Mariotti argues, the Black
republic was considered by free Black Americans as a place where
full citizenship was at hand. Haiti was essentially viewed and
concretely experienced as a refuge during moments when free Black
Americans lost hope of obtaining rights in the United States. Haiti
is also at the heart of this book, as Haitian leaders supported the
American emigration to Haiti (in the 1820s and early 1860s),
opposed the American geostrategic and diplomatic diktats in the
1870s and 1880s, and finally offered an international platform to
Frederick Douglass at the 1893 Columbian World’s Fair, thus
helping Black people who faced discrimination at home to fight
first against slavery and the slave trade, and then for equal
rights. By spanning the entire nineteenth century, Wanted! A
Nation! presents a complex panorama of the emergence of African
American identity and argues that Haiti should be considered as an
essential prism to understand how African Americans forged their
identity in the nineteenth century. Drawing on a variety of
sources, Wanted! A Nation! goes far beyond the usual framework of
national American history and contributes to the writing of an
Atlantic and global history of the struggle for equal rights. By
spanning the entire nineteenth century, Wanted! A Nation! presents
a complex panorama of the emergence of African American identity
and argues that Haiti should be considered as an essential prism to
understand how African Americans forged their identity in the
nineteenth century. Drawing on a variety of sources, Wanted! A
Nation! goes far beyond the usual framework of national American
history and contributes to the writing of an Atlantic and global
history of the struggle for equal rights.
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