A Gentleman Of Color The Life Of James Forten

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A Gentleman Of Color

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Author : Julie Winch
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2003-06-05

A Gentleman Of Color written by Julie Winch and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Winch has written the first full-length biography of James Forten, a hero of African American history and one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America. Born into a free black family in 1766, Forten served in the Revolutionary War as a teenager. By 1810 he had earned the distinction of being the leading sailmaker in Philadelphia. Soon after Forten emerged as a leader in Philadelphia's black community and was active in a wide range of reform activities. Especially prominent in national and international antislavery movements, he served as vice-president of the American Anti-Slavery Society and became close friends with William Lloyd Garrison to whom he lent money to start up the Liberator. His family were all active abolitionists and a granddaughter, Charlotte Forten, published a famous diary of her experiences teaching ex-slaves in South Carolina's Sea Islands during the Civil War. This is the first serious biography of Forten, who stands beside Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Martin Luther King, Jr., in the pantheon of African Americans who fundamentally shaped American history.

A Gentleman Of Color

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Author : Julie Winch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023

A Gentleman Of Color written by Julie Winch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with African American abolitionists categories.

James Forten began his career as a soldier before becoming the leading sailmaker in Philadelphia and a leader in the black community's reform activities. He served as vice-president of the American Anti-Slavery Society. This is his biography.

A Gentleman Of Color

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Author : Julie Winch
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2003-06-05

A Gentleman Of Color written by Julie Winch and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Winch has written the first full-length biography of James Forten, a hero of African American history and one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America. Born into a free black family in 1766, Forten served in the Revolutionary War as a teenager. By 1810 he had earned the distinction of being the leading sailmaker in Philadelphia. Soon after Forten emerged as a leader in Philadelphia's black community and was active in a wide range of reform activities. Especially prominent in national and international antislavery movements, he served as vice-president of the American Anti-Slavery Society and became close friends with William Lloyd Garrison to whom he lent money to start up the Liberator. His family were all active abolitionists and a granddaughter, Charlotte Forten, published a famous diary of her experiences teaching ex-slaves in South Carolina's Sea Islands during the Civil War. This is the first serious biography of Forten, who stands beside Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Martin Luther King, Jr., in the pantheon of African Americans who fundamentally shaped American history.

But One Race

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Author : Margaret Hope Bacon
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01

But One Race written by Margaret Hope Bacon and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with History categories.

Born in South Carolina to a wealthy white father and mixed race mother, Robert Purvis (1810–1898) was one of the nineteenth century's leading black abolitionists and orators. In this first biography of Purvis, Margaret Hope Bacon uses his eloquent and often fierce speeches to provide a glimpse into the life of a passionate and distinguished man, intimately involved with a wide range of major reform movements, including abolition, civil rights, Underground Railroad activism, women's rights, Irish Home Rule, Native American rights, and prison reform. Citing his role in developing the Philadelphia Vigilant Committee, an all black organization that helped escaped slaves secure passage to the North, the New York Times described Purvis at the time of his death as the president of the Underground Railroad. Voicing his opposition to a decision by the state of Pennsylvania to disenfranchise black voters in 1838, Purvis declared "there is but one race, the human race." But One Race is the dramatic story of one of the most important figures of his time.

James Forten

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Author : Julie Winch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-01-14

James Forten written by Julie Winch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-14 with African American abolitionists categories.

James Forten's rags-to-riches life was about more than a quest for wealth. He was a patriot who risked his life for the cause of independence. He was also a tireless foe of slavery and an outspoken champion of civil rights. He helped pave the way for the Emancipation Proclamation. His children and grandchildren would follow in his footsteps.

The Autobiography Of An Ex Colored Man

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Author : James Weldon Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Release Date : 2021-01-01

The Autobiography Of An Ex Colored Man written by James Weldon Johnson and has been published by Prabhat Prakashan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.

First published in the year 1912, 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional account of a young biracial man, referred to as the "Ex-Colored Man", living in post-Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Once We Were Slaves

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Author : Laura Arnold Leibman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-07-12

Once We Were Slaves written by Laura Arnold Leibman and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-12 with History categories.

An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. Yet she found herself at a dead end when it came to her grandmother's maternal line. Using family heirlooms to unlock the mystery of Moses's ancestors, Once We Were Slaves overturns the reclusive heiress's assumptions about her family history to reveal that her grandmother and great-uncle, Sarah and Isaac Brandon, actually began their lives as poor Christian slaves in Barbados. Tracing the siblings' extraordinary journey throughout the Atlantic World, Leibman examines artifacts they left behind in Barbados, Suriname, London, Philadelphia, and, finally, New York, to show how Sarah and Isaac were able to transform themselves and their lives, becoming free, wealthy, Jewish, and--at times--white. While their affluence made them unusual, their story mirrors that of the largely forgotten population of mixed African and Jewish ancestry that constituted as much as ten percent of the Jewish communities in which the siblings lived, and sheds new light on the fluidity of race--as well as on the role of religion in racial shift--in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Disenfranchising Democracy

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Author : David A. Bateman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-25

Disenfranchising Democracy written by David A. Bateman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-25 with History categories.

Disenfranchising Democracy examines the exclusions that accompany democratization and provides a theory of the expansion and restriction of voting rights.

The Journals Of Charlotte Forten Grimk

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Author : Charlotte L. Forten
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1988

The Journals Of Charlotte Forten Grimk written by Charlotte L. Forten and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Contains primary source material.

Pamphlets Of Protest

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Author : Richard Newman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-26

Pamphlets Of Protest written by Richard Newman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-26 with History categories.

Between the Revolution and the Civil War, African-American writing became a prominent feature of both black protest culture and American public life. Although denied a political voice in national affairs, black authors produced a wide range of literature to project their views into the public sphere. Autobiographies and personal narratives told of slavery's horrors, newspapers railed against racism in its various forms, and poetry, novellas, reprinted sermons and speeches told tales of racial uplift and redemption. The editors examine the important and previously overlooked pamphleteering tradition and offer new insights into how and why the printed word became so important to black activists during this critical period. An introduction by the editors situates the pamphlets in their various social, economic and political contexts. This is the first book to capture the depth of black print culture before the Civil War by examining perhaps its most important form, the pamphlet.