Classical Black Nationalism: From the American Revolution to Marcus Garvey

An examination of black nationalist thought from its earliest proto-nationalistic phase in the 1700s to the Garvey movement in the 1920s.

Wilson Jeramiah Moses, whom the Village Voice called one of the foremost historians of black nationalism, has here collected the most influential speeches, articles, and letters that inform the intellectual underpinnings of contemporary black nationalism, focusing on its inception. The goal of early black nationalists was the return of the African-American...