
Prophets Of Protest
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Prophets of Protest, the first collection of writings on abolitionism in more than a generation, draws on an immense new body of research in African American studies, literature, art history, film, law, women's studies, and other disciplines. The book incorporates new thinking on such topics as the role of early black newspapers, antislavery poetry, and abolitionists in film and provides new perspectives on familiar figures such as Sojourner Truth, Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, and John Brown.
With contributions from the leading scholars in the field, Prophets of Protest is a long overdue update of one of the central reform movements in America's history.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- FOREWARD by Michael Fellman
- INTRODUCTION by Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John Stauffer
- PART ONE Revisions
- 1. Robert P. Forbes - "Truth Systematised": The Changing Debate Over Slavery and Abolition, 1761-1916
- 2. Manisha Sinha - Coming of Age: The Historiography of Black Abolitionism
- PART TWO Origins
- 3. T.K. Hunter - Geographies of Liberty: A Brief Look at Two Cases
- 4. Richard S. Newman - "A Chosen Generation": Black Founders and Early America
- 5. Julie Wince - "Onward, Onward, Is Indeed the Watchword": James Forten's Reflections on Revolutions and Liberty
- 6. Sandra Sandiford Young - John Brown's Russwurm's Dilemma: Citizenship or Emigration?
- 7. Timothy Patrick McCarthy - "To Plead Our Own Cause": Black Print Culture and the Origins of American Abolitionism
- PART THREE Revolutions
- 8. Kari Gridley - "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
- 9. Hannah Geffert (with Jean Libby) - Regional Black Involvement in John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
- PART FOUR Representations
- 10. Patrick Rael - A Common Nature, A United Destiny: African American Responses to Racial Science from the Revolution to the Civil War
- 11. Julie Roy Jeffrey - "No Occurrence in Human History Is More Deserving of Commemoration Than This": Abolitionist Celebration of Freedom
- 12. Dickson D. Bruce Jr. - Print Culture and the Antislavery Community: The Poetry of Abolitionism, 1831-1860
- 13. Augusta Rohrback - Profits of Protest: The Market Strategies of Sojourner Truth and Louisa May Alcott
- 14. John Stauffer - Creating an Image in Black: The Power of Abolition Pictures
- 15. Casey King - Abolitionists in American Cinema: From The Birth of a Nation to Amistad
- Afterword by Martin Duberman
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Notes
- Index
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