Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Absalom Jones and Richard Allen
"A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia" (1794)
2. Prince Hall
"A Charge" (1797)
3. Daniel Coker
"A Dialogue Between a Virginian and an African
Minister" (1810)
4. James Forten
"Series of Letters by a Man of Color" (1813)
5. Russell Parrott
"An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade" (1814)
6. Prince Saunders
"An Address to the Pennsylvania Augustine Society" (1818)
7. Robert ALexander
Young
"Ethiopian Manifesto" (1829)
8. David Walker
"Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World" (1829, 1830)
9. William Hamilton
"Address to the National Convention of 1834" (1834)
10. Elizabeth Wicks
"Address Delivered Before the African Female Benevolent Society
of Troy" (1834)
11. Maria W. Stewart
"Productions" (1835)
12. Robert Purvis
"Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens, Threatened with Disenfranchisement, to the People of Pennsylvania" (1837)
13. David Ruggles
"New York Committee of Vigilance for the Year 1837, together with
Important Facts Relative to Their Proceedings" (1837)
14. Henry Highland Garnet
"Address to the Slaves of America" (1848)
15. Proceedings of the National Convention of Colored People (1847)
16. "Report of the Proceedings of the Colored National Convention" (1848)
17. John
W. Lewis
"Essay on the Character and Condition of the African Race"(1852)
18. Mary Ann Shadd
"A Plea for Emigration, or Notes of Canada West" (1852)
19. Frederick Douglass, Et Al.
"Address to the People of the United States" (1853)
20. Martin Delany
"Political
Destiny of the Colored Race, on the American Continent" (1854)
21. William Wells Brown
"The History of the Haitian Revolution" (1855)
22. Mary Still
"An Appeal to the Females of the African Methodist Episcopal Church" (1857)
23. Theodore Holly
"A Vindication of the
Capacity of the Negro for SElf-Government and Civilized Progress" (1857)
24. Alexander Crummel
"The English Language in Liberia" (1861)
25. T. Morris Chester
"Negro Self-Respect and Pride of Race" (1862)
Finding 'freedom in print' when it could be found in few places, African American pamphleteers chronicled America in a way largely forgotten. through the twenty-five pamphlets reprinted here and an excelent introduction by the editors, Pamphlets of Protestexposes
a wold too rarely seen. Ideal for students, scholars, and all those seeking a broader vision of 'freedon' in America (Norrece T. Jones, Jr., author of,i.Slavery and Antislavery: Race and Freedom Struggles in the Making of America)
This is a first-rate anthology of the pivitoal yet neglected tradition of early balck pamphlets. It provides both an illuminating cross-section of the documents themselves and a highly readable as well as insightful history of the black pamphlet tradition. An absolutely
superb and engaging volume (Waldo Martin, Rofessor of Historu, University of California Berkeley)
This brillantly edited collection will be of invaluable assistance to students of Amreican social and intellectual history at every level. The editors have performed a valuable service by making these documents available in this convenient volume, while the introduction
is a model of creativity, imagination, and intellecutal rigot (Wilson J. Moses, Professor of History and Fellow in the Humanities, Pennsylvania State University)
Spanning from the American Revolution through the Civil Wa, this volume brings together for the first time representative writings of the nation's most powerful and (too often)_most under-appreciated critics of slavery and white suppremacy. the editors supply such clear
historical contexts for each of the documents, amd for the collection as a whole, that exerpts no less than beginners will find their encounters with this work to be truly illuminating. For students of African American history, and literature, PAMPHLETS OF PROTEST is simply is simply
indispensable (James Brewer Stewart, James Wallace Professor of History, Macalester College)
