Frontiers of Freedom: Cincinnati's Black Community, 1802-1868Nineteenth-century Cincinnati was northern in its geography, southern in its economy and politics, and western in its commercial aspirations. While those identities presented a crossroad of opportunity for native whites and immigrants, African Americans endured economic repression and a denial of civil rights, compounded by extreme and frequent mob violence. No other northern city rivaled Cincinnati's vicious mob spirit. Frontiers of Freedom follows the black community as it moved from alienation and vulnerability in the 1820s toward collective consciousness and, eventually, political self-respect and self-determination. As author Nikki M. Taylor points out, this was a community that at times supported all-black communities, armed self-defense, and separate, but independent, black schools. Black Cincinnati's strategies to gain equality and citizenship were as dynamic as they were effective. When the black community united in armed defense of its homes and property during an 1841 mob attack, it demonstrated that it was no longer willing to be exiled from the city as it had been in 1829. Frontiers of Freedom chronicles alternating moments of triumph and tribulation, of pride and pain; but more than anything, it chronicles the resilience of the black community in a particularly difficult urban context at a defining moment in American history. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 A City of Promise | 10 |
2 A City of Persecution The Emergence of a Community | 28 |
3 A Place Called Freedom The 1829 Riot and Emigration | 50 |
4 Emerging from Fire Rebirth and Renewal 18291836 | 80 |
5 Building Strength Within State and National Alliances 18291841 | 106 |
6 Standing Their Ground A Communitys Maturation 18411861 | 117 |
7 Underground Activism Fugitive Slave Resistance 18411861 | 138 |
8 Palladium of Their Liberty Black Public Schools and the Road to | 161 |
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Frontiers of Freedom: Cincinnati's Black Community, 1802-1868 Nikki Marie Taylor No preview available - 2005 |
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References to this book
Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion [Two Volumes] ABC-CLIO, LLC,Harcourt Education No preview available - 2006 |