Book contents
- African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850
- African American Literature in Transition
- African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology, 1830–1850
- Introduction
- Part I Local Transitions
- Part II National Transitions
- Part III Transnational Transitions
- Chapter 8 Cosmopolitanism, Character, and the Theories of Early African American Literature
- Chapter 9 Race, Slavery, and Emigration in Black Women’s Life Writing
- Chapter 10 The Impact of West Indian Emancipation on African American Poetry
- Chapter 11 La Escalera, Sentiment, and Revolution in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
- Chapter 12 Europe, Mexico, and the African American 1848
- Chapter 13 Frederick Douglass, the Irish Famine, and the Lessons of Environmental History
- Index
Chapter 12 - Europe, Mexico, and the African American 1848
from Part III - Transnational Transitions
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Book contents
- African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850
- African American Literature in Transition
- African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology, 1830–1850
- Introduction
- Part I Local Transitions
- Part II National Transitions
- Part III Transnational Transitions
- Chapter 8 Cosmopolitanism, Character, and the Theories of Early African American Literature
- Chapter 9 Race, Slavery, and Emigration in Black Women’s Life Writing
- Chapter 10 The Impact of West Indian Emancipation on African American Poetry
- Chapter 11 La Escalera, Sentiment, and Revolution in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
- Chapter 12 Europe, Mexico, and the African American 1848
- Chapter 13 Frederick Douglass, the Irish Famine, and the Lessons of Environmental History
- Index
Summary
Returning to David Walker’s Appeal, with an exclusive focus on its 1848 publication, this chapter traces the connections between the 1848 anti-monarchical revolutions in Europe, the Mexican American War, and an emerging vision of Black resistance to American Empire. This chapter reads Walker together with the works of Henry Highland Garnet and decisively demonstrates how African American literature articulated the principles and priorities of a transnational 1848.
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- African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850 , pp. 268 - 289Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021