Revolutions and reconstructions : black politics in the long nineteenth century /
This volume gathers historians of the early republic, the Civil War era and African American life to consider not whether African Americans participated in the politics of the early, ante- and postbellum republic, but how, when, and with what lasting effects. Together, the essays advance several imp...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Early American studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Black politics and U.S. politics in the age of revolutions, reconstructions, and emancipations / Van Gosse and David Waldstreicher
- Chapter 1. Women's politics, antislavery politics, and Phillis Wheatley's American revolution / David Waldstreicher
- Chapter 2. Rethinking white supremacy : black resistance and the problem of slaveholder authority / Padraig Riley
- Chapter 3. In the woodpile : Negro electors in the first reconstruction / Van Gosse
- Chapter 4. Freedom and the politics of migration after the American Revolution / Samantha Seeley
- Chapter 5. Black migration, black villages, and black emancipation in antebellum Illinois / M. Scott Heerman
- Chapter 6. Practicing formal politics without the vote : black New Yorkers in the aftermath of 1821 / Sarah L. H. Gronningsater
- Chapter 7. "Agitation, tumult, violence will not cease" : black politics and the Compromise of 1850 / Andrew Diemer
- Chapter 8. Black politics and the "foul and infamous lie" of Dred Scott / Christopher James Bonner
- Chapter 9. The "Free Cuba" campaign, Republican politics, and post-Civil War black internationalism / James M. Shinn Jr.
- Chapter 10. The Southern division : freedpeople, pensions, and federal state building in the post-Confederate South / Dale Kretz
- Epilogue : Telling and retelling : the diversity of black political practices / Kellie Carter Jackson
- Afterword / Laura F. Edwards.