Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860

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Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860

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"Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860" . Ed. Richard S. Newman, Patrick Rael, and Phillip Lapsansky. New York: Routledge, 2001. viii+326 pp.

Table of contents

● Acknowledgments
● Introduction

● Absalom Jones and Richard Allen / “A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia” (1794)
● Prince Hall / “A Charge” (1797)
● Daniel Coker / “A Dialogue Between a Virginian and an African Minister” (1810)
● James Forten / “Series of Letters by a Man of Colour” (1813)
● Russell Parrott / “An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade” (1814)
● Prince Saunders / “An Address before the Pennsylvania Augustine Society” (1818)
● Robert Alexander Young / “Ethiopian Manifesto” (1829)
● David Walker / “Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World” (1829, 1830)
● William Hamilton / “Address to the National Convention of 1834” (1834)
● Elizabeth Wicks / “Address Delivered Before the African Female Benevolent Society of Troy” (1834)
● Maria W. Stewart / “Productions” (1835)
● Robert Purvis / “Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens, Threatened with Disfranchisement, to the People of Pennsylvania” (1837)
● David Ruggles / “New York Committee of Vigilance for the Year 1837, together with Important Facts Relative to Their Proceedings” (1837)
● Henry Highland Garnet / “Address to the Slaves of the United States of the America” (1848)
● “Proceedings of the National Convention of Colored People” (1847)
● “Report of the Proceedings of the Colored National Convention . . . held in Cleveland” (1848)
● John W. Lewis / “Essay on the Character and Condition of the African Race” (1852)
● Mary Ann Shadd / “A Plea for Emigration, or Notes of Canada West” (1852)
● Frederick Douglass, et al. / “Address to the People of the United States” (1853)
● Martin Delany / “Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent” (1854)
● William Wells Brown / “The History of the Haitian Revolution” (1855)
● Mary Still / “An Appeal to the Females of the African Methodist Episcopal Church” (1857)
● J. Theodore Holly / “A Vindication of the Capacity of the Negro for Self-Government and Civilized Progress” (1857)
● Alexander Crummell / “The English Language in Liberia” (1861)
● T. Morris Chester / “Negro Self-Respect and Pride of Race” (1862)

● Index

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A0355

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