Anti-Racism in U.S. History

The First Two Hundred Years

By:

Herbert Aptheker

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Hardback

Series:

Contributions in American History

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This work examines the existence of anti-racism in the first 200 years of US history. Herbert Aptheker challenges the view that racism was universally accepted by whites. His book debunks the myth the white people never cared about the plight of African-Americans until just before the outbreak of the Civil War. Covering the period from the 1600s through the 1860s, Aptheker begins with a short introduction and a questioning of racism's pervasiveness, taking examples of anti-racism from the literature. He then devotes sections to sexual relations, racism and anti-racism, to joint struggles to reject racism, and to a discussion of Gregoire, Banneker and Jeffersonianism. Next he considers "inferiority" as viewed by poets, preachers and teachers and by entrepreneuers, seamen and cowboys. After a consideration of the Quakers, he turns his attention to the American and French revolutions and racism and to the Republic's early years and racism. Aptheker then devotes several sections to Abolitionism and concludes the work with the "the Crisis Decade", the Civil War, emancipation and anti-racism. This book by a well-known scholar in the field should be of interest to all concerned with US history and African American history.

Author Biography:

HERBERT APTHEKER has taught at many leading institutions, including Bryn Mawr College and Yale University. He has just retired from his post at the University of California (Berkeley). The author of over eighty volumes, his best known works include American Negro Slave Revolts (1943), A Documentary History of Negro People (4 vols., to 1945), Abolitionism (1989), and Literary Legacy of Du Bois (1989). He is the editor of the Du Bois Correspondence (3 vols.), Du Bois' Complete Published Writings (37 vols.), and four volumes of his previously unpublished writings.

Release date Australia

February 28th, 1992

Author

Herbert Aptheker

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Interest Age

From 7 to 17 years

Pages

264

Series

Contributions in American History

Dimensions

152x229x19

ISBN-13

9780313281990

Product ID

4729127

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