"The precious birthright" : Black leaders and the fight to vote in antebellum Rhode Island /

"In 1842, Black Rhode Islanders secured a stunning victory rarely seen in antebellum America: they won the right to vote. Amid heightened public discourse around shifting ideas of race, citizenship, and political rights, they methodically deconstructed the arguments against their enfranchisemen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Martin, C. J., 1986- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2024]
Series:	Black New England
Subjects:	African Americans > Suffrage > Rhode Island > History. Suffrage > Rhode Island > History. African Americans > Rhode Island > Providence > History > 19th century. Providence (R.I.) > History > 19th century. Providence (R.I.) > Race relations > 19th century. Providence (R.I.) > Social conditions > 19th century. Rhode Island > Politics and government > 1775-1865. Suffrage > Rhode Island > Histoire. Rhode Island > Politique et gouvernement > 1775-1865. HISTORY / African American & Black. HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: "To promote one common good": Black leaders in revolutionary Rhode Island
Chapter 2: "Dignified abeyance": Evolving black leadership and disfranchisement
Chapter 3: "Forever and hereafter a body politic": New leadership and organization, 1819-1824
Chapter 4: "The clouds of evil": Survival and organization, 1820-1831
Chapter 5: "How long will the lord suffer us to remain as we now are?": Activists and citizenship in the 1830s
Chapter 6: "The mustard seed," Part 1: Black leaders, allies, and escalation of the suffrage movement
Chapter 7: "The mustard seed," Part 2: Citizenship.