TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fagan,Benjamin
TI  - The Black newspaper and the chosen nation
SN  - 0820349399
AV  - PN4882.5 .F35 2016
U1  - 071.3089/96073 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Athens
PB  - The University of Georgia Press
KW  - Press and politics
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - African American newspapers
KW  - African American press
KW  - Journaux noirs américains
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Presse noire américaine
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: the records of black chosenness -- Acting chosen -- Prophecies for a chosen nation -- Revolutionary chosenness -- The limits of black chosenness -- Joining the chosen army -- Conclusion: the ends of black chosenness
N2  - "The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation shows how antebellum African-Americans used the newspaper as a means of translating their belief in black "chosenness" into plans and programs for black liberation. During the decades leading up to the Civil War, the idea that God had marked black Americans as his chosen people on earth became a central article of faith in northern black communities, with black newspaper editors articulating it in their journals. Benjamin Fagan examines how the early black press helped shape the relationship between black chosenness and the struggles for black freedom and equality in America, in the process transforming the very notion of a chosen American nation. Exploring how cultures of print helped antebellum black Americans apply their faith to struggles grand and small, The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation uses the vast and neglected archive of the early black press to shed new light on many of the central figures and questions of African American studies."--Publisher's description
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