North America
New Directions in the History of Free Black Activism in the Antebellum North
By , Bowdoin College (July 2004)
Sections: North America
Subjects: History, Political History.
Places: Northern America, Americas.
Periods: 1000 - 1999, 1900-1999.
Key Topics: nationalism, resistance, protests, rights, revolution and social change.
Abstract
Scholarship on the activism of free African Americans in the northern states before the Civil War developed in the wake of the Civil Rights revolution, and has recently exploded. The new scholarship challenges facets of the older interpretation, which was built on community studies and the history of black nationalism.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2004.00099.x
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