| Description |
1 online resource (267 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover Page -- Original Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents Page -- Foreword Page -- Chapter I: The Significance of the African American Experience -- African Americans and America -- A Celebration -- Objectives -- Plan of this Book -- Notes -- Chapter II: Historians' Views of Antebellum Activists -- Neglected Pioneers Or Powerless Failures? -- The Question of Leadership -- The Convention Movement -- Notes -- Chapter III: The Northern African American Community -- Representative Individuals -- Heritage of Slavery -- Prejudice |
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Evolution of Community: The Environment -- Evolution of Community: The Response -- Notes -- Chapter IV: Manhood and Freedom -- The term ""Manhood -- 'White' Manhood -- We Are Men! -- Definitions of Manhood -- Humanity -- Definitions of Manhood -- Control of One's Body & Dignity -- Definitions of Manhood -- Freedom of Movement -- Definitions of Manhood -- Acquiring Knowledge -- Definitions of Manhood -- Political Uses -- Manhood -- Private and Public Aspects -- Manhood for the Masses -- Notes -- Chapter V: Manhood and Freedom: A Test Case -- Manhood in the Career of David Ruggles -- Ruggles' Fall |
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The Continuum of Freedom -- Devising Strategy and Tactics -- The Central Role of Elevation -- Notes -- Chapter VI: Women in the Northern African American Community -- The ""Gendering Process -- African Background -- Women in Slavery -- Activities in the North -- Styles of Womanhood -- Representative Women: ""Folk"" Women -- Representative Women: Bourgeois Women -- Male & Female: Together -- Apart -- Notes -- Chapter VII: Free Spaces: The African American Convention Movement -- Sources and Conclusions -- Local Meetings of the 1830's -- State Conventions of the 1840's and 1850's |
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Growing Sophistication -- Tensions Within the African American Community -- Manhood -- Notes -- Chapter VIII: Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix: Methodology -- Themes -- Rules for Thematic Analysis -- Topics -- Word/Phrase Frequency Analysis -- Tables -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000525922 |
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1000525929 |
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