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PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN-100674309340
ISBN-139780674309340
eBay Product ID (ePID)4448200
Product Key Features
Book TitleForging Freedom : the Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840
Number of Pages372 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), General, United States / General, African American
Publication Year1988
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorGary B. Nash
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight35.3 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN87-023696
Dewey Edition18
ReviewsNow 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 Decimal974.8/1100496073
Table Of ContentIntroduction 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
SynopsisThis 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 NumberF158.9.N4N37 1988
