African-American Activism before the Civil War: The Freedom Struggle in the Antebellum North

African-American Activism before the Civil War is the first collection of scholarship on the role of African Americans in the struggle for racial equality in the northern states before the Civil War. Here, in one place for the first time, anchored by a comprehensive, analytical introduction discussing the historiography of antebellum black activism, the best scholarship on this crucial group of African American activists can finally be studied together.

Author: Patrick Rael
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 04/01/2008
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.36w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9780415957274

About the Author

Patrick Rael is Associate Professor of History at Bowdoin College, Maine. He is the author of Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North and Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860 (Routledge).