John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65"A marvel of scholarship and artistry. The general reader will be fascinated to discover the vitality of the free black community that Langston moved and moved in." -- Joyce Appleby, University of California "Provides the mirror in which to reflect Langston's brilliant, turbulent career, as well as the nation's ongoing struggle against racism. Life-and-times biography could be put to no better use." -- David W. Blight, Journal of American History "One of the most thorough studies ever done of a nineteenth-century black American. [It] will be the standard." -- J. M. Matthews, Choice "Breaks new and important ground in the field of African-American history. . . . [It] is both a social history of the period and the remarkable story of Langston's formative life and career as a free black Ohioan in pre-Civil War America." -- David C. Dennard, Journal of Southern History "A sensitive biography of a black leader and a full-scale history of the society in which he matured and began his career." -- John B. Boles, American Historical Review "The Cheeks have masterfully performed . . . their chief task--the transformation of autobiography into social history." -- Wilson J. Moses, Reviews in American History A volume in the series Blacks in the New World, edited by August Meier and John H. Bracey |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Acknowledgments | 5 |
Inheritor 182934 | 7 |
Love and SelfReliance 183440 | 30 |
Culture and Kinship 184043 | 48 |
Morality and Politics 184349 | 84 |
Career Reform and Thwarted Hopes 184950 | 130 |
A Nationality Before We Can Become Anybody 185052 | 169 |
Law Marriage and Public Place 185456 | 243 |
Life and Labor in a Biracial Town 185665 | 278 |
Blacks and the OberlinWellington Rescue 185659 | 316 |
Provoking the Conflict 185961 | 349 |
The Struggle to Fight for Human Liberty 186163 | 383 |
The Emergence of a National Leader 186365 | 418 |
Afterword | 456 |
| 459 | |
Common terms and phrases
abolitionist Anglo-African Anti-Slavery Bugle Anti-Slavery Society barber black community black convention black leaders black Ohioans black students Charles Langston Chase Chillicothe Christian Recorder church Cincinnati Gazette Clark Cleveland Leader Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland True-Democrat Colored Citizens Columbus committee Cowles delegates Editor election Elyria Elyria Independent-Democrat emigration enfranchisement equal Frederick Douglass Fugitive Slave Law Gooch Henry Henry Cowles History Howard James JML Scrapbook John Brown John Mercer Langston July June Langston Papers Liberator liberty Lorain County Lucy moral movement National Anti-Slavery Standard National Convention Negro North Star Oberlin College Oberlin College Archives Oberlin Evangelist Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Ohio black Ohio State Journal Ohio's orator party Philanthropist political Population Census president Quarles racial recruitment regiment Report repr Republican Russia Township Sept slavery ston tion Union Vashon Virginia Plantation Washington Watson William women Woodson York young
References to this book
Bibliographic information
| Title | John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65 Volume 82 of Blacks in the New World |
| Authors | William F. Cheek, Aimee Lee Cheek |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press, 1996 |
| ISBN | 0252065913, 9780252065910 |
| Length | 478 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / General Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |