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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Roberts, Rita. Evangelicalism and the politics of reform in northern Black thought, 1776-1863. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2010021248 (OCoLC)613435994 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Rita Roberts |
ISBN: | 9780807138243 080713824X |
OCLC Number: | 706077306 |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 261 pages) |
Contents: | Becoming African, becoming Christian : religion and the evolution of a common identity -- Becoming American : Christian republicanism and African American identity -- They want us slaves forever : evangelical reform and the expansion of slavery -- We do not all of us think alike : evangelicalism and conflicting strategies for citizenship -- They despise us for our color : the problem of race and Black evangelical reform -- We love our country-- but we love liberty more : emigrationism, nationalism, evangelicalism, and the beginning of the Civil War. |
Series Title: | Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world. |
Responsibility: | Rita Roberts. |
Abstract:
During the revolutionary age and in the early republic, when racial ideologies were evolving and slavery expanding, some northern blacks surprisingly came to identify very strongly with the American cause and to take pride in calling themselves American. In this intriguing study, Rita Roberts explores this phenomenon.
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- African Americans -- Race identity -- Northeastern States.
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- Republicanism -- United States -- History.
- Free African Americans -- Northeastern States.
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History.
- Noirs américains -- Identité ethnique -- États-Unis (Nord-Est)
- Noirs américains -- Religion -- Histoire.
- Évangélisme -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
- Républicanisme -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
- Noirs américains affranchis -- États-Unis (Nord-Est)
- Mouvements antiesclavagistes -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
- African Americans -- Race identity.
- African Americans -- Religion.
- Antislavery movements.
- Evangelicalism.
- Free African Americans.
- Republicanism.
- Northeastern States.
- United States.
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