Title:
Black writers of the founding era 1760-1800
ISBN:
9781598537345
9781598537895
Physical Description:
lxi, 706 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
Series:
Contents:
Briton Hammon -- Jupiter Hammon -- Phillis Cogswell -- Phillis Wheatley -- Cesar Lyndon -- Arthur -- Andrew, "A Negro Servant" -- Newton Prince -- Richard Peronneau -- Lucy Pernam -- James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw -- Sip Wood -- Felix Holbrook -- "The Sons of Africa" -- Cuffee Wright -- Peter Bestes, Sambo Freeman, Felix Holbrook, and Chester Joie -- "Crispus Attucks" -- Phillis Wheatley -- Kudjo Holms -- "A Son of Africa" -- "A Great Number of Blacks" -- Cesar Sarter -- Bristol Lambee -- Lemuel Haynes -- Antonio Muray -- Scipio Fayerweather -- Sezor Phelps -- Lancaster Hill, Peter Bess, Brister Slenser, Prince Hall, and others -- Prince Demah -- Jupiter Hammon -- Prince Hall -- Judea Moore -- Ofodobendo Wooma, or "Andrew, a member of the Moravian church" -- Prime and Prince -- Great Prince, Little Prince, Luke, and others -- Pomp -- Phillis Wheatley and John Peters -- Nero Brewster and "Others, natives of Africa" -- Adam -- John Cuffe and Paul Cuffe -- "The poor and oppressed Negro servants" -- Thomas Nichols -- Murphy Stiel -- "A Black Whig" -- Cato -- "Negroes who obtained freedom" -- "An African American" -- Cudjo Vernon -- "An Œthiopian" -- Belinda Sutton -- "Vox Africanorum" -- Judith Jackson -- Ned Griffin -- Prince Hall -- Absalom Jones -- Sarah Greene -- John Marrant -- Jane Coggeshall -- Johnson Green -- Jupiter Hammon -- Presence Flucker -- James Armistead Lafayette -- Anthony Taylor and the Free African Union Society of Newport -- Daphney Demah -- Absalom Jones and Richard Allen -- Cyrus Bustill -- "Humanio" -- "A number of Black inhabitants of Providence" -- "The Blacks of New Haven City" -- Olaudah Equiano -- James Durham -- Bristol Yamma and James McKenzie -- Margaret Blucke -- Benjamin Banneker -- "Africanus" -- Cyrus Bustill, William White, and others -- Cynthia Cuffee -- Yamboo -- Thomas Peters -- Thomas Cole, Peter Bassnett Matthews, and Matthew Webb -- "J.-B." -- Absalom Jones and others -- David Simpson -- Stephen Blucke -- George Liele -- Susana Smith and Sarah Peters -- Prince Hall -- John Moore -- David George -- John Morris, William Morris, and others -- Absalom Jones and Richard Allen -- Citizens of South Carolina -- Peter McNelly -- Cato Hanker -- Absalom Jones and others -- Judith Cocks -- Margaret Lee -- The African Society -- James Hemings -- William Hamilton -- Anonymous -- Boston King -- Richard Allen -- Anonymous -- Jupiter Nicholson, Jacob Nicholson, Job Albert, and Thomas Pritchet -- Harry Cuff, and Cato -- Prince Hall -- Margaret Moore -- Abraham Johnstone -- Patty Gipson -- Abraham Jones -- Venture Smith -- Primus Grant and others -- Lemuel Haynes -- John Carruthers Stanly -- Lemuel Overnton -- Joshua Johnson -- William Godfrey -- Richard Allen -- The people of colour, Freemen withing the city and suburbs of Philadelphia -- James Forten -- George Middleton -- Sylvia -- Andrew Bryan.
Summary:
"For too long, African Americans have been left out of the story of the nation's founding, their voices absent from the memory and celebration of the creation of the American republic. Black Writers of the Founding Era--by far the richest and most expansive anthology of its kind ever assembled--restores these voices. The writings gathered here reveal the complexity and dynamism of African American life and culture in the period and show how the principles of the American Revolution were seized upon and enlarged by Black Americans from the very beginning. Here are writers both enslaved and free, loyalist and patriot, women and men, Northern and Southern: soldiers, seamen, and veterans; painters, poets, and preachers; cooks, hairdressers, farmers, and many more. Alongside such better known works as Phillis Wheatley's poems and Benjamin Banneker's mathematical and scientific puzzles are dozens of first-person narratives offering a variety of Black perspectives on the political events of the times. These bold and eloquent contributions to public debate about the meanings of the Revolution and the republican values that gave rise to it dramatize the many ways in which protest and activism have always been integral for Black Americans. Intimate diaries and letters, many never before published, tell more private stories, indelibly altering our understanding of the lived experience of this crucial time in our history. A foreword by Annette Gordon-Reed and an introduction by James G. Basker, along with introductory headnotes and explanatory notes drawing on recent scholarship, illuminate these indispensable works. A 16-page color photo insert presents portraits of some of the writers and images of the original manuscripts, broadsides, and books in which their words are preserved."--Provided by publisher.
