Lexington Books
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Trim: 6½ x 9⅜
978-0-7391-1893-1 • Hardback • February 2007 • $147.00 • (£113.00)
978-0-7391-1894-8 • Paperback • February 2007 • $58.99 • (£45.00)
978-0-7391-5520-2 • eBook • February 2007 • $56.00 • (£43.00)
Jacqueline Bacon is a writer and scholar living in San Diego. She is the author of The Humblest May Stand Forth: Rhetoric, Empowerment, and Abolition.
Chapter 1 Introduction: A Clap of Thunder
Chapter 2 The Time Has Now Arrived: The African-American Community of the Late 1820s
Chapter 3 The History of Freedom's Journal
Chapter 4 Whatever Concerns Us As a People: The Goal of Freedom's Journal
Chapter 5 Be Up and Doing: Self-Help
Chapter 6 Men and Women, Private and Public
Chapter 7 Redemption, Regeneration, Revolution: Africa and Haiti
Chapter 8 Save Us from Our Friends: Colonization and Emigration
Chapter 9 Our Brethren Who Are Still in Bondage: Slavery and Antislavery
Chapter 10 Echoes and Re-Echoes: The Impact and Legacy of Freedom's Journal
Jacqueline Bacon's well-written manuscript promises to be a significant contribution to scholarship in African-American history, nineteenth-century reform, and American journalism. This is an important work.....
— Roy Finkenbine, professor of history, University of Detroit Mercy
Bacon has done a masterful job of providing a history of early black rhetoric and writing that gives agency to the African Americans themselves who wrote for, read, distributed, and discussed the paper. Freedom's Journal is essential reading as it expands our current understanding of the role of rhetoric in early African American politics and culture....
— Shevaun E. Watson, University of South Carolina
Thanks to Dr. Jacqueline Bacon, we now have an in-depth, scholarly analysis of the first African-American paper which establishes that there was no monolithic black mindset, but rather often competing attitudes about such prevailing, hot-button subjects as the back to Africa movement versus assimilation in the U.S., and gradualism and accommodation versus violent insurrection as the answer to enslavement. . . . This engaging tome is an invaluable teaching tool for the ages....
— Kam Williams, syndicated film and book critic
Bacon has written an impressive book about the short-lived Freedom's Journal, which was published from March 1827 until March 1829. In setting out to address hitherto unanswered questions concerning the purpose of the periodical, the author approaches hermaterial thematically rather than historically. . . . Perhaps the most enlightening chapter in this readable and comprehensive book is the one that explores the rhetoric of gender, particularly the discussion of women as contributors to the publication.. . . Highly recommended...
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Bacon's compellingly written and insightful volume should restore this significant and influential periodical to its proper place in histories about African Americans' struggles for emancipation and civil rights.....
— Holly M. Kent, University of Illinois, Springfield
• Winner, 2007 Gustavus Myers Book Award Honorable Mention