Anti-Racism in U. S. History: The First Two Hundred Years

Table of contents

• Recent Titles in Contributions in American History ii
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Abbreviations xi
• Introduction xiii
• 1 - Anti-Racism: Denial and Distortion 1
• 2 - Questioning Racism's Pervasiveness 9
• 3 - Anti-Racism's Presence: Examples from the Literature 15
• 4 - Sexual Relations 25
• 5 - Rejecting Racism by Joint Struggle 37
• 6 - Grégoire, Banneker, and Jeffersonianism 47
• 7 - Inferiority" and Poets, Preachers, and Teachers" 53
• 8 - Inferiority" and Entrepreneurs, Seamen, and Cowboys" 65
• 9 - From Egypt to Philosophes to Quakers 69
• 10 - The American and French Revolutions 83
• 11 - The Republic's Early Years 95
• 12 - The New Century's Youth 107
• 13 - Lane Rebels and Black Rebels 121
• 14 - Abolitionism and Racism 129
• 15 - Immortals of Literature and Martyrs for Freedom 147
• 16 - From Liberty Party to Republican Party 155
• 17 - The Crisis Decade 167
• 18 - The Civil War and Emancipation 177
• Notes 197
• Bibliographic Comment 233
• Index 235
• About the Author 247

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