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Pamphlets of protest : an anthology of early African-American protest literature, 1790-1860

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Contributors: Newman, Richard, 1930-, Rael, Patrick., Lapsansky, Phillip.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2001.
Subjects and Genres:
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 18th century > Sources.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 19th century > Sources.
African Americans > Politics and government > 18th century > Sources.
African Americans > Politics and government > 19th century > Sources.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century > Sources.
Protest literature, American.
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Table of Contents:
  • A narrative of the proceedings of the Black people during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia (1794) / Absalom Jones and Richard Allen
  • A charge (1797) / Prince Hall
  • A dialogue between a Virginian and an African minister (1810) / Daniel Coker
  • Series of letters by a man of colour (1813) / James Forten
  • An oration on the abolition of the slave trade (1814) / Russell Parrott
  • An address before the Pennsylvania Augustine Society (1818) / Prince Saunders
  • Ethiopian manifesto (1829) / Robert Alexander Young
  • Appeal to the colored citizens of the world (1829, 1830) / David Walker
  • Address to the National Convention of 1834 (1834) / William Hamilton
  • Address delivered before the African Female Society of Troy (1834) / Elizabeth Wicks
  • Productions (1835) / Maria W. Stewart
  • Appeal of forty thousand citizens, threatened with disfranchisement, to the people of Pennsylvania (1837) / Robert Purvis
  • New York Committee of Vigilance for the year 1837, together with important facts relative to their proceedings (1837) / David Ruggles
  • Address to the slaves of the United States of America (1848) / Henry Highland Garnet
  • Proceedings of the National Convention of Colored People (1847)
  • Report of the proceedings of the Colored National Convention ... held in California (1848)
  • Essay on the character and condition of the African race (1852) / John W. Lewis
  • A plea for emigration, or notes of Canada West (1852) / Mary Ann Shadd
  • Address to the people of the United States (1853) / Frederick Douglass, et al.
  • Political destiny of the colored race on the American continent (1854) / Martin Delany
  • The history of the Haitian Revolution (1855) / William Wells Brown
  • An appeal to the females of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (1857) / Mary Still
  • A vindication of the capacity of the Negro for self-government and civilized progress (1857) / J. Theodore Holly
  • The English language in Liberia (1861) / Alexander Crummell
  • Negro self-respect and pride of race (1862) / T. Morris Chester.

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