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Platform for Change: The Foundations of the Northern Free Black Community, 1775-1865

By Harry Reed
Hardcover
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By Harry Reed
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Platform for Change is a comparative study of the evolution of the free African American community in three cities—New York, Philadelphia, and Boston—from 1776 to 1865. It articulates the beginnings of community consciousness among northern free African Americans and examines their lives in the period from the Revolutionary to the Civil War. The author challenges existing scholarship about nineteenth-century blacks, which assesses their activity as just another exercise in powerlessness. Re...

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