James W.C. Pennington : essays toward rediscovering a great African American intellectual and reformer /

This volume offers pioneering essays on the life, writings, and contexts of nineteenth-century Black thinker and activist James W.C. Pennington. Mostly forgotten after Reconstruction, Pennington was an internationally-acclaimed Black intellectual during his own day. His activism took him to Europe,...

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Other Authors: Stievermann, Jan (Editor), Smith, Caitlin B. (Editor), Glaude, Eddie S., Jr., 1968- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Series:Oxford new histories of philosophy.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This volume offers pioneering essays on the life, writings, and contexts of nineteenth-century Black thinker and activist James W.C. Pennington. Mostly forgotten after Reconstruction, Pennington was an internationally-acclaimed Black intellectual during his own day. His activism took him to Europe, Jamaica, and across the United States. His theological training in the Edwardsean tradition, along with his extensive research into Black history, made him a leading African American intellectual and one of the most incisive critics of slavery and racism. Bringing together experts from a variety of disciplines, this volume re-inserts Pennington into contemporary scholarship on abolitionism, antebellum religion, Romanticism, and transnational reform movements.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Audience:Specialized.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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