Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861As the story of the United States was recorded in pages written by white historians, early-nineteenth-century African American writers faced the task of piecing together a counterhistory: an approach to history that would present both the necessity of and |
Contents
The Theater of History | 39 |
Scattered Lives Scattered Documents Writing Liberation History | 95 |
Multiple Lives and Lost Narratives AutoBiography as History | 155 |
The Assembly of History Orations and Conventions | 219 |
Our Warfare Lies in the Field of Thought The African American Press and the Work of History | 277 |
William Wells Brown and the Performance of History | 331 |
Notes | 345 |
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Page 31 - Who believes that the Whites and Blacks can ever amalgamate in America? Or who wishes it to happen? Nature has set an impassable seal against it. Besides, is not America for the Whites? And is it not better so? As long as the Blacks remain here how can they become anything like an independent and heroic race? There is no chance for it.