The Practice of Citizenship traces the parallel development of early black print culture and
legal and cultural understandings of US citizenship. Considering a variety of texts by both …

This study of religious thought and social life in early America focuses on the career of
Joseph Bellamy (1719-1790), a Connecticut Calvinist minister noted chiefly for his role in …

On June 7, 1731, four men gathered around a table in a sout New England seaport, possibly
at a tavern, to transact some ness. Three of them? one of advanced middle age, the other t …

48 The Journal of American History June 2005 wardsean tradition. Although now largely
unknown, that tradition represented a major intellectual and social force in antebellum …

A MONG the unpublished manuscripts of Jonathan Edwards is a newly discovered letter
draft that treats the issue of slavery and, more specifcally, the importation of African slaves …

Religion in the USA manifests itself in many forms and this book examines them, from
religion in the early republic, to early African American religion, reform, nativism movements …

During the revolutionary age and in the early republic, when racial ideologies were evolving
and slavery expanding, some northern blacks surprisingly came to identify very strongly with …

American narratives to record the lives of Afri cans in America were prompted by the deaths
of those early subjects. These accounts of lives lived in bondage and in freedom were …

Nineteenth-century exslave narratives allow us to understand the way in which freedmen,
freedwomen, and runaways experienced and enjoyed liberty. In such narratives, liberty …

This dissertation approaches performance cultures as integral components of early black
Atlantic writing, and considers how meaning is produced at the intersection of writing and …