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1 online resource (154 pages)
ISBN:
9780820344676
Serie:
Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900
Inhalt:
In this study of antebellum African American print culture in transnational perspective, Erica L. Ball explores the relationship between antislavery discourse and the emergence of the northern black middle class. Through innovative readings of slave narratives, sermons, fiction, convention proceedings, and the advice literature printed in forums like Freedom's Journal , the North Star , and the Anglo-African Magazine , Ball demonstrates that black figures such as Susan Paul, Frederick Douglass, and Martin Delany consistently urged readers to internalize their political principles and to interpret all their personal ambitions, private familial roles, and domestic responsibilities in light of the freedom struggle. Ultimately, they were admonished to embody the abolitionist agenda by living what the fugitive Samuel Ringgold Ward called an "antislavery life.". Far more than calls for northern free blacks to engage in what scholars call "the politics of respectability," African American writers characterized true antislavery living as an oppositional stance rife with radical possibilities, a deeply personal politics that required free blacks to transform themselves into model husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, self-made men, and transnational freedom fighters in the mold of revolutionary figures from Haiti to Hungary. In the process, Ball argues, antebellum black writers crafted a set of ideals-simultaneously respectable and subversive-for their elite and aspiring African American readers to embrace in the decades before the Civil War. Published in association with the Library Company of Philadelphia's Program in African American History. A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication.
Inhalt:
Intro -- TO LIVE AN ANTISLAVERY LIFE -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE African American Advice Literature and Black Middle-Class Self-Fashioning -- CONDUCT DISCOURSE AND FREE BLACK LIMINALITY -- A DUTY TO RECEIVE INSTRUCTION AND ADVICE -- "PRAY, WHO DOES HE APE?" -- ETHIOPIA SHALL STRETCH FORTH HER HANDS -- ON POLITICS AND RESPECTABILITY -- CHAPTER TWO Slave Narratives and the Black Self-Made Man -- VIRTUE, INDEPENDENCE, AND ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN -- "THE PROP AND SHELTER OF MORALITY" -- NARRATIVIZING AN ANTISLAVERY LIFE -- UP FROM SLAVERY? -- CHAPTER THREE Antislavery Discourse and the African American Family -- "THE MORE TENDER RELATIONS" -- "UNPROTECTED BY LAW OR CUSTOM" -- "AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER?" -- MAKING THE POLITICAL PERSONAL -- CHAPTER FOUR Domestic Literature and the Antislavery Household -- CREATING AN ANTISLAVERY HOUSEHOLD -- DEMOCRATIZING FEMALE INFLUENCE -- CHILD REARING -- TOWARD A BLACK MIDDLE-CLASS DOMESTIC IDEAL -- CHAPTER FIVE Transnationalism, Revolution, and the Anglo-African Magazine on the Eve of the Civil War -- BLACK FOUNDING FATHERS -- TRANSNATIONAL DISCOURSES OF REVOLUTION -- CREATING MODERN REVOLUTIONARIES IN THE ANGLO-AFRICAN MAGAZINE -- FREE BLACK PERSONAL POLITICS ON THE EVE OF THE CIVIL WAR -- Epilogue -- NOTES -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. African American Advice Literature and Black Middle-Class Self-Fashioning -- CHAPTER TWO. Slave Narratives and the Black Self-Made Man -- CHAPTER THREE. Antislavery Discourse and the African American Family -- CHAPTER FOUR. Domestic Literature and the Antislavery Household -- CHAPTER FIVE. Transnationalism, Revolution, and the Anglo-African Magazine on the Eve of the Civil War -- Epilogue -- INDEX -- RACE IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD, 1700-1900.
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ISBN 9780820329765
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780820329765
Sprache:
Englisch
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