John Ernest offers a comprehensive survey of the broad-ranging and influential African American organizations and networks formed in the North in the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War. He examines fraternal organizations, churches, conventions, mutual aid benefit and literary societies, educational organizations, newspapers, and magazines. Ernest argues these organizations demonstrate how African Americans self-definition was not solely determined by slavery as they tried to create organizations in the hope of creating a community.
- ISBN10 1566638070
- ISBN13 9781566638074
- Publish Date 16 June 2011 (first published 16 April 2011)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Ivan R Dee, Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 232
- Language English