The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation - Hardcover

Fagan, Benjamin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820349402 ISBN 13: 9780820349404

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2016

Synopsis

The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation shows how antebellum African Americans used the newspaper as a means for translating their belief in black “chosenness” into plans and programs for black liberation. During the decades leading up the Civil War, the idea that God had marked black Americans as his chosen people on earth became a central article of faith in northern black communities, with black newspaper editors articulating it in their journals.

Benjamin Fagan shows how the early black press helped shape the relationship between black chosenness and the struggles for black freedom and equality in America, in the process transforming the very notion of a chosen American nation. Exploring how cultures of print helped antebellum black Americans apply their faith to struggles grand and small, The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation uses the vast and neglected archive of the early black press to shed new light on many of the central figures and questions of African American studies.

About this title

Book Description:

How the pre-Civil War black press defined the fight for freedom among African Americans

About the Author:

BENJAMIN FAGAN is an associate professor of English at Auburn University. He is the author of The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation (Georgia). He is also the editor of the forthcoming African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0820349402
• ISBN 13: 9780820349404
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 186