Introduction. Black Politics and U.S. Politics in the Age of
Revolutions, Reconstructions, and Emancipations
Van Gosse and David Waldstreicher
Chapter 1. Women's Politics, Antislavery Politics, and Phillis
Wheatley's American RevolutionDavid Waldstreicher
Chapter 2. Rethinking White Supremacy: Black Resistance and the
Problem of Slaveholder Authority
Padraig Riley
Chapter 3. In the Woodpile: Negro Electors in the First
Reconstruction
Van Gosse
Chapter 4. Freedom and the Politics of Migration After the American
Revolution
Samantha Seeley
Chapter 5. Black Migration, Black Villages, and Black Emancipation
in Antebellum Illinois
M. Scott Heerman
Chapter 6. Practicing Formal Politics Without the Vote: Black New
Yorkers in the Aftermath of 1821
Sarah L. H. Gronningsater
Chapter 7. "Agitation, Tumult, Violence Will Not Cease": Black
Politics and the Compromise of 1850
Andrew Diemer
Chapter 8. Black Politics and the "Foul and Infamous Lie" of Dred
Scott
Christopher James Bonner
Chapter 9. The "Free Cuba" Campaign, Republican Politics, and
Post-Civil War Black Internationalism
James M. Shinn Jr.
Chapter 10. The Southern Division: Freedpeople, Pensions, and
Federal State Building in the Post-Confederate South
Dale Kretz
Epilogue. Telling and Retelling: The Diversity of Black Political
Practices
Kellie Carter Jackson
Afterword
Laura F. Edwards
Revolutions and Reconstructions gathers historians of the early republic, the Civil War era, and African American and political history to consider not whether African Americans participated in the politics of the long nineteenth century but how, when, and with what lasting effects.
Van Gosse is Professor of History at Franklin and Marshall College. David Waldstreicher is Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Gosse and Waldstreicher have assembled a well-organized and
carefully edited collection. The editors and the authors have
thoughtfully merged the unique historical research and analysis of
each author with the volume’s larger arguments about
nineteenth-century Black people’s political engagement. Their
collection is only a preview of a developing body of work that will
surely transform scholarly understandings of the evolution of US
politics.
*Early American Literature*
[This] rich collection of essays brings together scholars of the
Early Republic, the Civil War era, and African American life to
reconceptualize Black political activism in the period between the
Revolutionary and Reconstruction eras. Arguing that revolution,
emancipation, and Reconstruction were interrelated processes, the
editors open up a new vista through which historians will analyze
these historical periods and Black political resistance.
*The Journal of the Civil War Era*
Revolutions and Reconstructions brilliantly reimagines the black
political landscape before 1900. Each chapter is based on cutting
edge work and the whole volume convincingly shows how African
American political actors, whether at the local or national level,
played pivotal roles on a number of civic and institutional fronts.
It's an essential volume.
*Richard Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology*
This timely volume highlights the agency of African Americans by
demonstrating that their efforts were ongoing, multifaceted, and
driving American politics. The image of a nation going through a
postwar reconstruction that was similar across regions has long
been in need of correction, and this book is a significant
contribution to that effort.
*Beverly Tomek, University of Houston-Victoria*
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