Stanley Harrold

The effort to abolish slavery produced the Atlantic world's great reform movement of the 18th and 19th centuries. This book focuses on the American abolitionists who struggled against slavery and advocated equal rights for African Americans in the United States. Blacks, whites, men and women, southern slaves and northern agitators became participants in the conflict between North and South that led to the civil war in 1861 and general emancipation in 1865. Some of these activists advocated nonviolence, while others – including slave rebels – engaged in antislavery violence. Numerous excerpts from abolitionist writings, an extensive glossary, and a Who's Who guide to key figures are included.… (mehr)

Excellent and extensive work documenting cooperation in DC. Particularly:

Free Negroes in the District of Columbia, 1790-1846 [WorldCat.org]

quoting Cook's need "to be very particular to do nothing knowingly, that would in the least tend to disturb the public weal..." P. 41 of Harrold, Subversives, 2003

and
"best known" Israel Bethel (split from white Ebenezer, 4th st.) minister. Mentioned with Mt. Zion Negro Church, 1814 in Georgetown (earliest Black church in DC) contrasted with cut ties to mother denomination. Praised with Wesleyan Metropolitan AME Zion church aka African Wesleyan Society on D St, (S.E?) split under Abraham Cole. Began welcoming white abolitionists to their churches -P. 41, No Segregated Seating!!

and

American slavery, 1619-1877 (Libro, 1993) [WorldCat.org] worldcat.org
Harrold (in "Subversives" LSU, 2003) uses Kolchin to claim that most Whites saw Black ppl as needing slavery to control..

found this in the bibliography of "Snow-storm in August : Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the forgotten race riot of 1835", p. 4 Congressional spitting/coarse lang. legitimate institutution. P.6: 1850 GA secede if DC slavery abol. MD manumissions darker skinned free ppl, seen as more threat than mulatos. P. 16 Judge Cranch, 1821 ruled William Coston grandfathered out of new $20 free Black good behaviour bond. Black-White Cooperation: Quakers Tyson (est. school) & Lundy (pub. Genius of Univ. Emancip.). Mary Billings, George Drinker & Joshua Leavitt (1834 slave pen tour), Charles Torrey & Elisha Tyson (1840s), John Needle & William Chaplin (1850), M. Miner & (Gtown) Maria Becraft. Snow, Cook, Bradley. 1836 Gag Rule. J.Q.Adams, Gates, Giddings, Leavitt & Weld, Child & Torrey. P. 37: Geog. vs. Relational Community
ShiraDestinie
Peace,
MEOW Date: 6 August 12,014 H.E.

Community
MEOW Date 6.8.12,014H.e.… (mehr)

Excellent and extensive work documenting cooperation in DC. Particularly:

Free Negroes in the District of Columbia, 1790-1846 [WorldCat.org]

quoting Cook's need "to be very particular to do nothing knowingly, that would in the least tend to disturb the public weal..." P. 41 of Harrold, Subversives, 2003

and
"best known" Israel Bethel (split from white Ebenezer, 4th st.) minister. Mentioned with Mt. Zion Negro Church, 1814 in Georgetown (earliest Black church in DC) contrasted with cut ties to mother denomination. Praised with Wesleyan Metropolitan AME Zion church aka African Wesleyan Society on D St, (S.E?) split under Abraham Cole. Began welcoming white abolitionists to their churches -P. 41, No Segregated Seating!!

and

American slavery, 1619-1877 (Libro, 1993) [WorldCat.org] worldcat.org
Harrold (in "Subversives" LSU, 2003) uses Kolchin to claim that most Whites saw Black ppl as needing slavery to control..

found this in the bibliography of "Snow-storm in August : Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the forgotten race riot of 1835", p. 4 Congressional spitting/coarse lang. legitimate institutution. P.6: 1850 GA secede if DC slavery abol. MD manumissions darker skinned free ppl, seen as more threat than mulatos. P. 16 Judge Cranch, 1821 ruled William Coston grandfathered out of new $20 free Black good behaviour bond. Black-White Cooperation: Quakers Tyson (est. school) & Lundy (pub. Genius of Univ. Emancip.). Mary Billings, George Drinker & Joshua Leavitt (1834 slave pen tour), Charles Torrey & Elisha Tyson (1840s), John Needle & William Chaplin (1850), M. Miner & (Gtown) Maria Becraft. Snow, Cook, Bradley. 1836 Gag Rule. J.Q.Adams, Gates, Giddings, Leavitt & Weld, Child & Torrey. P. 37: Geog. vs. Relational Community
ShiraDestinie
Peace,
MEOW Date: 6 August 12,014 H.E.

Community
MEOW Date 6.8.12,014H.e.… (mehr)

This is actually a textbook (high school/college) I would say. I was reading it just as a basic history. I found it extremely informative. There is nothing in here that I found completely new, but the careful explanations of events certainly added considerable detail to my understanding not only on African American history, but of American history in general. I particularly liked that the authors consider such a broad variety of causes for historic events: great people, economics, social presssures, etc. It ranges from a background on African cultures up to events of 2007. (I can imagine the authors anxiously awaiting the opportunity to work the presidential campaign of Barack Obama into the next edition.) The authors have attempted to include cultural as well as historical events and devote a fair amount of space to music, which they consider to be extremely important in African-American culture, and to authors. One might complain that the visual arts are a bit scanted. At times, I thought that there might be a little more coverage of African Americans outside the South, but that was, after all, where the overwhelming majority lived and still live. Although it is sometimes clear that they have a particular point of view on a subject, they attempt to cover many controversies even-handedly. The text is heavily illustrated.

In addition to an extensive bibliography, there are annotated recommendations for further reading at the end of each chapter. The text includes chronologies and a glossary, as well as a detailed index.

In all, a book that I would recommend, even to those outside the classroom.… (mehr)