New Directions in the History of Free Black Activism in the Antebellum North
Article first published online: 21 DEC 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2004.00099.x
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Rael, P. (2004), New Directions in the History of Free Black Activism in the Antebellum North. History Compass, 2: **. doi: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2004.00099.x
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- Issue published online: 21 DEC 2005
- Article first published online: 21 DEC 2005
- History Compass 2 (2004)NA 099,1 -4
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Abstract
Scholarship on the activism of free African Americans in the northern states before the Civil War developed in the wake of the Civil Rights revolution, and has recently exploded. The new scholarship challenges facets of the older interpretation, which was built on community studies and the history of black nationalism.

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