Prophets of protest :reconsidering the history of American abolitionism
New York :
New Press :
2006.
xxxiii, 382 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-367) and index.
"Truth systematised" : the changing debate over slavery and abolition, 1761-1916 / Robert P. Forbes -- Coming of age : the historiography of Black abolitionism / Manisha Sinha -- Geographies of liberty : a brief look at two cases / T.K. Hunter -- "A chosen generation" : Black founders and early America / Richard S. Newman -- "Onward, onward, is indeed the watchword" : James Forten's reflections on revolution and liberty / Julie Winch -- John Brown Russwurm's dilemma : citizenship or emigration? / Sandra Sandiford Young -- "To plead our own cause" : Black print culture and the origins of American abolitionism / Timothy Patrick McCarthy -- "Willing to die for the cause of freedom in Kansas" : free state emigration, John Brown, and the rise of militant abolitionism in the Kansas territory / Karl Gridley -- Regional Black involvement in John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry / Hannah Geffert (with Jean Libby) -- A common nature, a united destiny : African American responses to racial science from the revolution to the Civil War / Patrick Rael -- "No occurrence in human history is more deserving of commemoration than this" : abolitionist celebrations of freedom / Julie Roy Jeffrey -- Print culture and the antislavery community : the poetry of abolitionism, 1831-1860 / Dickson D. Bruce Jr. -- Profits of protest : the market strategies of Sojourner Truth and Louisa May Alcott / Augusta Rohrbach -- Creating an image in Black : the power of abolition pictures / John Stauffer -- Abolitioni