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- catalog abstract "Platform for Change: The Foundations of the Northern Free Black Community, 1775-1865 challenges prevailing ideas about the passivity of African Americans in the antebellum North. At the same time, the work clearly demonstrates that the methods blacks used to respond to their political and social milieus were not merely reactions to white racism. Instead, late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century blacks are shown to have been motivated by human and social needs that, by and large, have been ignored by historians. Harry Reed reveals how, during this era, American blacks created a cultural identity and, at the same time, attacked the remnants of Northern slavery and the entire institution in the South. Taken collectively, the pre-Civil War activities of blacks in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia provided strong cultural underpinnings for the sense of black community that emerged after 1865. To the extent that they were able to confront racism, their spiritual strength was visibly reinforced by a strong cultural sense and an instinct for survival. What emerged during these nine decades was a marvelously complex, organic community, one that possessed its own rationale for existence, its own forms for enhancing collective life, and its own structures for meeting physical and spiritual needs, as well as the means for addressing external power centers that often had severe, negative impacts on blacks themselves.".
- catalog contributor b5166212.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "Background -- The church: spiritual sustenance was not enough -- Organizations: the role of self-help, fraternal, women's, and miscellaneous groups in creating a community infrastructure -- Black newspapers: defenders of the community, establishing and maintaining a public voice -- The convention movement: public forum fo Black ideas and Black leaders -- Emigrationism: toward the evolution of a nationalist ideology.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Platform for Change: The Foundations of the Northern Free Black Community, 1775-1865 challenges prevailing ideas about the passivity of African Americans in the antebellum North. At the same time, the work clearly demonstrates that the methods blacks used to respond to their political and social milieus were not merely reactions to white racism. Instead, late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century blacks are shown to have been motivated by human and social needs that, by and large, have been ignored by historians. Harry Reed reveals how, during this era, American blacks created a cultural identity and, at the same time, attacked the remnants of Northern slavery and the entire institution in the South.".
- catalog description "Taken collectively, the pre-Civil War activities of blacks in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia provided strong cultural underpinnings for the sense of black community that emerged after 1865. To the extent that they were able to confront racism, their spiritual strength was visibly reinforced by a strong cultural sense and an instinct for survival. What emerged during these nine decades was a marvelously complex, organic community, one that possessed its own rationale for existence, its own forms for enhancing collective life, and its own structures for meeting physical and spiritual needs, as well as the means for addressing external power centers that often had severe, negative impacts on blacks themselves.".
- catalog extent "viii, 256 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Platform for change.".
- catalog identifier "0870133411".
- catalog isFormatOf "Platform for change.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "East Lansing : Michigan State University Press,".
- catalog relation "Platform for change.".
- catalog spatial "Northeastern States.".
- catalog subject "973/.0496073 20".
- catalog subject "African Americans History 1863-1877.".
- catalog subject "African Americans History To 1863.".
- catalog subject "E185.18 .R44 1993".
- catalog subject "Free African Americans Northeastern States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Background -- The church: spiritual sustenance was not enough -- Organizations: the role of self-help, fraternal, women's, and miscellaneous groups in creating a community infrastructure -- Black newspapers: defenders of the community, establishing and maintaining a public voice -- The convention movement: public forum fo Black ideas and Black leaders -- Emigrationism: toward the evolution of a nationalist ideology.".
- catalog title "Platform for change : the foundations of the northern free Black community, 1775-1865 / Harry Reed.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".