Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840,

by Nash, Gary B. | HC | Good
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Binding
Hardcover
Weight
1 lbs
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ISBN
9780674309340
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674309340
ISBN-13
9780674309340
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4448200

Product Key Features

Book Title
Forging Freedom : the Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840
Number of Pages
372 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), General, United States / General, African American
Publication Year
1988
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Author
Gary B. Nash
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight
35.3 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

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Trade
LCCN
87-023696
Dewey Edition
18
Reviews
Now comes this superbly written book by Gary Nash, one of the prolific scholars on the subject, on the early history of the races at a particularly crucial juncture that occurred in the city of Philadelphia that sheds insight into the entire process...A particular strength of his work lies in his detailing of the resiliency and creativity of black culture in the city., Nash's book is a major contribution to our understanding of black life in the early American republic; it is a vivid and compelling account of the evolution of Philadelphia's black community in a period of increasing raciam., A compelling view of the development of black urban culture and society in Philadelphia. Masterfully researched and skillfully combining social scientific data and traditional documents, this work succeeds admirably as narrative and analysis. It easily ranks among the best work in the fields of black urban history and early American race relations.
Dewey Decimal
974.8/1100496073
Table Of Content
Introduction 1. Slavery and Antislavery in the Capital of Conscience 2. The Black Revolution in Philadelphia 3. Becoming Free 4. "To Arise Out of the Dust" 5. A City of Refuge 6. Establishing the Color Line 7. The Bittersweet Cup of Freedom 8. The Dream Deferred Abbreviations Notes Index
Synopsis
This book is the first to trace the good and bad fortunes, over more than a century, of the earliest large free black community in the United States. Gary Nash shows how, from colonial times through the Revolution and into the turbulent 1830s, blacks in the City of Brotherly Love struggled to shape a family life, gain occupational competence, organize churches, establish neighborhoods and social networks, advance cultural institutions, educate their children in schools, forge a political consciousness, and train black leaders who would help abolish slavery. These early generations of urban blacks--many of them newly emancipated--constructed a rich and varied community life. Nash's account includes elements of both poignant triumph and profound tragedy. Keeping in focus both the internal life of the black community and race relations in Philadelphia generally, he portrays first the remarkable vibrancy of black institution-building, ordinary life, and relatively amicable race relations, and then rising racial antagonism. The promise of a racially harmonious society that took form in the postrevolutionary era, involving the integration into the white republic of African people brutalized under slavery, was ultimately unfulfilled. Such hopes collapsed amid racial conflict and intensifying racial discrimination by the 1820s. This failure of the great and much-watched "Philadelphia experiment" prefigured the course of race relations in America in our own century, an enduringly tragic part of this country's past., 1820s. This failure of the great and much-watched "Philadelphia experiment" prefigured the course of race relations in America in our own century, an enduringly tragic part of this country's past.
LC Classification Number
F158.9.N4N37 1988

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