Black Americans in the Revolutionary Era: A Brief History with Documents: Bedford Series in History & Culture (Paperback)
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780312413590
ISBN-10: 0312413599
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 137 x 206 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: BEDFORD BOOKS
Seria Bedford Series in History & Culture (Paperback)
Locul publicării:Boston, MA, United States
ISBN-10: 0312413599
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 137 x 206 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: BEDFORD BOOKS
Seria Bedford Series in History & Culture (Paperback)
Locul publicării:Boston, MA, United States
Notă biografică
Woody Holton (Ph.D., Duke University) is an associate professor at the University of Richmond in Virginia, where he teaches classes on African Americans, Native America, early American women, the origins of the Constitution, Abigail Adams, and the era of the American Revolution. He is especially interested in studying the impact of ordinary citizens on grand political events. He is the author of "Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia" (1999), which won the Organization of American Historians Merle Curti Social History Award, and "Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution" (2007), which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Descriere
In this fresh look at liberty and freedom in the Revolutionary era from the perspective of black Americans, Woody Holton recounts the experiences of slaves who seized freedom by joining the British as well as those -- slave and free -- who served in Patriot military forces. Holton's introduction examines the conditions of black American life on the eve of colonial independence and the ways in which Revolutionary rhetoric about liberty provided African Americans with the language and inspiration for advancing their cause. Despite the rhetoric, however, most black Americans remained enslaved after the Revolution. The introduction outlines ways African Americans influenced the course of the Revolution and continued to be affected by its aftermath. Amplifying these themes are nearly forty documents -- including personal narratives, petitions, letters, poems, advertisements, pension applications, and images -- that testify to the diverse goals and actions of African Americans during the Revolutionary era. Document headnotes and annotations, a chronology, questions for consideration, a selected bibliography, and index offer additional pedagogical support.
Cuprins
Foreword
Preface
PART ONE: Introduction
Black Americans on the Eve of White Independence
Black Americans and the Coming of the American Revolution
African Americans in the Revolutionary War
Challenging Slavery
Revolutionary Legacies
PART TWO: The Documents
Chapter 1: Black Americans and the Coming of the American Revolution, 1750–1775
- Fugitive Slave Advertisements, 1750–1774
- Briton Hammon, A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprising Deliverance, of Briton Hammon, A Negro Man, 1760
- James Otis, The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved, 1764
- Landon Carter, Plantation Diary, March 22, 1770
- "Felix," Petition to Governor, Council, and House of Representatives of Massachusetts, January 6, 1773
- Massachusetts African Americans, Petition to Local Representatives, April 20, 1773
- Patrick Henry, Letter to Robert Pleasants, January 18, 1773
- Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, 1773
On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield
On Being Brought from Africa to America
- Phillis Wheatley, Letter to Samsom Occom, February 11, 1774
Chapter 2: African Americans in the Revolutionary War, 1775–1783
- Andrew Estave, Letter in the Virginia Gazette, July 20, 1775
- John Murray, Lord Dunmore, A Proclamation, November 7, 1775
- Wartime Fugitive Slave Advertisements, 1776–1782
- Extract of a Letter from Monmouth County, June 21, 1780
- Sergeant Murphy Steele, Deposition Reporting a Supernatural Encounter, August 16, 1781
- John Trumbull, Battle of Bunker’s Hill, 1786
- Jacob Francis, Revolutionary War Pension Application, 1836
Chapter 3: Challenging Slavery, 1776–1787
- Thomas Jefferson, Original Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
- New Hampshire Slaves, Freedom Petition, November 12, 1779
- Free Blacks in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, Petition against Taxation without Representation, February 10, 1780
- William Cushing, Charge to the Jury in the Case of Quok Walker, 1783
- Susan Sedgwick, Elizabeth Freeman, 1811
Chapter 4: Revolutionary Legacies, 1785–1855
- John Marrant, Narrative, July 18, 1785
- Citizens of Halifax County, Virginia, Petition Defending Slavery, November 10, 1785
- Prince Hall and Other "African Blacks," Petition to the Massachusetts Legislature for Return to Africa, January 4, 1787
- Free African Society, Charter, April 12, 1787
- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1788
- Rose Fortune, 1780s?
- Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson, Exchange of Letters, August 19 and 30, 1791
- Saul, Petition to the Virginia State Legislature, October 9, 1792
- David George, An Account of the Life of Mr. David George from Sierra Leone, Africa, Given by Himself, 1793
- Boston King, Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, A Black Preachers, Written by Himself, July 4, 1796
- Freemen from North Carolina, Petition to Congress, January 23, 1797
- Prosser’s Ben, Mr. Price’s John, and Ben Woolfolk, Testimony against Gabriel, October 6, 1800
- Raphaelle Peale, Absalom Jones, 1810
- Paul Cuffee, Memoir of Captain Paul Cuffee, October 1811
- William C. Nell, Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, 1855
APPENDIXES
A Chronology of Black Americans in the Revolutionary Era
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Index