In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860Oxford University Press, 30.04.1998 - 352 Seiten Prince Hall, a black veteran of the American Revolution, was insulted and disappointed but probably not surprised when white officials refused his offer of help. He had volunteered a troop of 700 Boston area blacks to help quell a rebellion of western Massachusetts farmers led by Daniel Shays during the economic turmoil in the uncertain period following independence. Many African Americans had fought for America's liberty and their own in the Revolution, but their place in the new nation was unresolved. As slavery was abolished in the North, free blacks gained greater opportunities, but still faced a long struggle against limits to their freedom, against discrimination, and against southern slavery. The lives of these men and women are vividly described in In Hope of Liberty, spanning the 200 years and eight generations from the colonial slave trade to the Civil War. In this marvelously peopled history, James and Lois Horton introduce us to a rich cast of characters. There are familiar historical figures such as Crispus Attucks, a leader of the Boston Massacre and one of the first casualties of the American Revolution; Sojourner Truth, former slave and eloquent antislavery and women's rights activist whose own family had been broken by slavery when her son became a wedding present for her owner's daughter; and Prince Whipple, George Washington's aide, easily recognizable in the portrait of Washington crossing the Delaware River. And there are the countless men and women who struggled to lead their daily lives with courage and dignity: Zilpha Elaw, a visionary revivalist who preached before crowds of thousands; David James Peck, the first black to graduate from an American medical school in 1848; Paul Cuffe, a successful seafaring merchant who became an ardent supporter of the black African colonization movement; and Nancy Prince, at eighteen the effective head of a scattered household of four siblings, each boarded in different homes, who at twenty-five was formally presented to the Russian court. In a seamless narrative weaving together all these stories and more, the Hortons describe the complex networks, both formal and informal, that made up free black society, from the black churches, which provided a sense of community and served as a training ground for black leaders and political action, to the countless newspapers which spoke eloquently of their aspirations for blacks and played an active role in the antislavery movement, to the informal networks which allowed far-flung families to maintain contact, and which provided support and aid to needy members of the free black community and to fugitives from the South. Finally, they describe the vital role of the black family, the cornerstone of this variegated and tightly knit community In Hope of Liberty brilliantly illuminates the free black communities of the antebellum North as they struggled to reconcile conflicting cultural identities and to work for social change in an atmosphere of racial injustice. As the black community today still struggles with many of the same problems, this insightful history reminds us how far we have come, and how far we have yet to go. |
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... British North America. Their cultures, with characteristic beliefs, values, languages, music, and aesthetic styles, blended from the beginning with Native American and European cultures to create a distinctive American culture. During ...
... British North America. Their cultures, with characteristic beliefs, values, languages, music, and aesthetic styles, blended from the beginning with Native American and European cultures to create a distinctive American culture. During ...
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... British North America in 1619. Yet, by the turn of the eighteenth century, British traders dominated the enterprise. In 1672 the Crown had granted the Royal African Company an import monopoly facilitating the sale of corporate stock and ...
... British North America in 1619. Yet, by the turn of the eighteenth century, British traders dominated the enterprise. In 1672 the Crown had granted the Royal African Company an import monopoly facilitating the sale of corporate stock and ...
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... British concerns. By the Revolution other firms in Boston, Newport, and New York underwrote the slave trade.” The economic significance of the slave trade grew in the northern urban centers of New England and the middle colonies. There ...
... British concerns. By the Revolution other firms in Boston, Newport, and New York underwrote the slave trade.” The economic significance of the slave trade grew in the northern urban centers of New England and the middle colonies. There ...
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... British rule in 1664 introduced a more rigid form of slavery as the Royal African Company displaced the Dutch West India Company's control over New York's slave trade, and the British regularized and finally codified the formerly ad hoc ...
... British rule in 1664 introduced a more rigid form of slavery as the Royal African Company displaced the Dutch West India Company's control over New York's slave trade, and the British regularized and finally codified the formerly ad hoc ...
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... British Barbados and settled in northern New Jersey. Like the large estate owners of New York, these slaveholders attempted to style their holdings and lives on the manner of the plantation gentry of the West Indian sugar islands. In ...
... British Barbados and settled in northern New Jersey. Like the large estate owners of New York, these slaveholders attempted to style their holdings and lives on the manner of the plantation gentry of the West Indian sugar islands. In ...
Inhalt
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30 | |
3 Revolution and the Abolition of Northern Slavery | 55 |
The Evolution of Family and Household | 77 |
Poverty Work and Regional Differences | 101 |
Building Institutions for Social and Spiritual Welfare | 125 |
7 Culture Politics and the Issue of AfricanAmerican Identity | 155 |
Colonization and the Question of Emigration | 177 |
9 The Growth of the Antebellum Antislavery Movement | 203 |
10 The Widening Struggle Growing Militancy and the Hope of Liberty for All | 237 |
Epilogue | 269 |
Notes | 271 |
Index | 325 |
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In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community and Protest among Northern Free ... James Oliver Horton,Lois E. Horton Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1998 |
In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest Among Northern Free ... James Oliver Horton,Lois E. Horton Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1998 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abolition abolitionists African Americans Allen American Colonization American Colonization Society antebellum antislavery argued Baptist became Black Abolitionist Black Americans Black Bostonians black church black communities black families black population black women blacks and whites Boston British Carolina Christianity Cincinnati colonial Colonization Society Colored American convention culture early economic emancipation emigration England established Forging Freedom Forten Frederick Douglass free blacks fugitive slave Garrison Garrisonians Gerrit Smith Haiti Haitian Henry Highland Garnet household important indentured indentured servants Indian institution interracial James Forten James McCune Smith Jersey John labor liberty lived Massachusetts masters meeting Methodist minister mulatto Nash nineteenth century North number of black Ohio organized Paul Cuffe Pennsylvania percent Philadelphia political Quaker race racial reformers religious Revolution Rhode Island servants ship slave trade slaveholders slavery social South southern Thomas tion Urban Virginia West white abolitionists William William Wells Brown workers York City
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 320 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Seite 212 - I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.
Seite 125 - Wherever at the head of some new undertaking you see the government in France, or a man of rank in England, in the United States you will be sure to find an association.
Seite xi - Alas! and am I born for this, To wear this slavish chain? Deprived of all created bliss, Through hardship, toil and pain! How long have I in bondage lain, And languished to be free! Alas! and must I still complain— Deprived of liberty. Oh, Heaven! and is there no relief This side the silent grave— To soothe the pain— to quell the grief And anguish of a slave? Come, Liberty, thou cheerful sound, Roll through my ravished ears! Come, let my grief in joys be drowned, And drive away my fears.
Seite 71 - Therefore, no male person, born in this country, or brought from over sea, ought to be holden by law to serve any person, as a servant, slave, or apprentice...
Seite 57 - April, 1775, was the day of founding the Pennsylvania society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race.
Seite 200 - Let no man of us budge one step, and let slave-holders come to beat us from our country. America is more our country, than it is the whites— we have enriched it with our blood and tears.
Seite 200 - We are NATIVES of this country; we ask only to be treated as well as FOREIGNERS. Not a few of our fathers suffered and bled to purchase its independence ; we ask only to be treated as well as those %vho fought against it.
Seite 185 - Through a mistaken policy, you have heretofore been deprived of a participation in the glorious struggle for national rights in which our country is engaged. This no longer shall exist. As sons of freedom, you are now called upon to defend our most inestimable blessings.
Seite 58 - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
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