In The Company Of Black Men : : The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City /

In The Company Of Black Men : : The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City / / Craig Steven Wilder.

Traces the development of African-American community traditions over three centuriesFrom the subaltern assemblies of the enslaved in colonial New York City to the benevolent New York African Society of the early national era to the formation of the African Blood Brotherhood in twentieth century Harl...

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Wilder, Craig Steven,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2002]
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Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • “Some Little Tribute” An Introduction
  • Part I African Voluntary Associations and the Rise of Black Spiritual Culture
  • 1 A Taunt from the Oppressed: The West African Institutional Legacy in New York City, 1644–1783
  • 2 Raising Mother Zion: The Fusion of African and British Institutions in New York, 1784–1822
  • 3 The Liberating Power of the Cross The NYAS and the African Encounter with the Protestant Ethic, 1774–1796
  • 4 “The Aristocracy of Character” African Societies and the Moral Consequence of Nationalism, 1784–1845
  • Part II African Voluntary Associations and the Making of the Public Sphere
  • 5 “The Inmates of My Sanctum Sanctorum” African Voluntary Associations and the Public Sphere, 1808–1845
  • 6 In the Company of Black Men Manhood and Obligation in the African Confraternity, 1808–1857
  • 7 “A Single Voice” African Societies, the Press, and the Public Sphere, 1827–1861
  • 8 When Black Men Spoke of Freedom Voluntary Associations and Nationalist Culture, 1809–1865
  • Part III The Transformation of African American Voluntarism
  • 9 “The Gaudy Carnival” The African Declension in the NYASMR, 1863–1945
  • 10 “Shall It Be a Woman?” The Transformation of Black Men’s Voluntarism, 1865–1960
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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