- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Rowman Littlefield Publishers (Dec 15 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0945612214
- ISBN-13: 978-0945612216
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 376 g
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Social historian Nash ( Forging Freedom , LJ 5/1/88) presents three essays and supporting annotated documents dealing with the neglected topic of slavery during the Revolutionary era. He argues convincingly that most Revolutionary leaders understood the incompatibility of slavery with their equalitarian ideology. Unlike past historians, Nash especially blames Northern leaders, who were unwilling to compensate Southern slaveholders or to accept a biracial America, for the persistence of slavery at a time when it most easily could have been abolished. He contends that free blacks adapted to Northern discrimination by creating alternative organizations, especially black churches, which safeguarded an African-American identity and maintained abolitionist fervor. Relying upon recent scholarship, the author provides an insightful, well-written investigation which will appeal to scholars and the general public.
- David Szatmary, Univ. of Washington, Seattle
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- David Szatmary, Univ. of Washington, Seattle
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
A powerful, forthright, and revisionist interpretation . . . thoroughly convincing. (Linda K. Kerber )
The best history makes a difference in how we think about and feel the past. Race and Revolution is an important, tough-minded, provocative group of essays that contributes to our understanding of the most debilitating virus in the American system. Not only has Gary Nash illuminated the critical challenge of race and slavery in the revolutionary era and 'the most tragic failure' of American leaders, but he has brought to the forefront the long ignored role of black revolutionists in the early struggles for freedom. (Leon F. Litwack )
Gary Nash has written a powerful, forthright, and revisionist interpretation of the founding generation and slavery which challenges much received wisdom. I find it thoroughly convincing. (Linda K. Kerber )
Race and Revolution is a bold and stirring documentation of the collapse of the devotion for liberty in America in the immediate wake of the American Revolution. While his interpretations will startle some, Gary Nash correctly finds that the demise of efforts to abolish slavery and incorporate blacks in American society proceeded directly from an increasingly conservative, white supremacist North, not a self-serving South. Finally, historians may be taking off the blinders that have perpetually obscured our ability to understand slavery and race as national, not regional problems. (Larry E. Tise )
Race and Revolution should become standard reading in graduate and undergraduate seminars. It is broadly conceived and engages the major historiographical issues in such a way as to suggest new avenues of investigation. (R.J.M. Blackett )
A powerful book . . . a tightly argued and vigorous reassessment of the revolutionary generation's failure to eliminate slavery. (Journal Of The Early Republic )
Clearly written . . . [Nash]'s coverage of the free black community's vigorous efforts to achieve justice in white supremacist society in the northern states is particularly illuminating. (Choice )
The best history makes a difference in how we think about and feel the past. Race and Revolution is an important, tough-minded, provocative group of essays that contributes to our understanding of the most debilitating virus in the American system. Not only has Gary Nash illuminated the critical challenge of race and slavery in the revolutionary era and 'the most tragic failure' of American leaders, but he has brought to the forefront the long ignored role of black revolutionists in the early struggles for freedom. (Leon F. Litwack )
Gary Nash has written a powerful, forthright, and revisionist interpretation of the founding generation and slavery which challenges much received wisdom. I find it thoroughly convincing. (Linda K. Kerber )
Race and Revolution is a bold and stirring documentation of the collapse of the devotion for liberty in America in the immediate wake of the American Revolution. While his interpretations will startle some, Gary Nash correctly finds that the demise of efforts to abolish slavery and incorporate blacks in American society proceeded directly from an increasingly conservative, white supremacist North, not a self-serving South. Finally, historians may be taking off the blinders that have perpetually obscured our ability to understand slavery and race as national, not regional problems. (Larry E. Tise )
Race and Revolution should become standard reading in graduate and undergraduate seminars. It is broadly conceived and engages the major historiographical issues in such a way as to suggest new avenues of investigation. (R.J.M. Blackett )
A powerful book . . . a tightly argued and vigorous reassessment of the revolutionary generation's failure to eliminate slavery. (Journal Of The Early Republic )
Clearly written . . . [Nash]'s coverage of the free black community's vigorous efforts to achieve justice in white supremacist society in the northern states is particularly illuminating. (Choice )
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Excellent on slavery and the American Revolution, July 23 1996
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This book is a real eye-opener for anyone, like me, who thought that slavery was not an issue at the time of the American Revolution.Did you think slaves did not understand what was going on?
Have a look!
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An Important Perspective on whether or not the new U.S. Nation Would Allow Slavery, April 21 2012
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Despite other comments about him on-line, Gary B. Nash is an exceptional historian who has made path-breaking contributions to the understanding of the American Revolution. "Race and Revolution" is one such contribution among many others. This is a book based on three lectures names for Merrill Jensen at the University of Wisconsin in 1988. It makes the case that at no time between the establishment of slavery in the British colonies in North America the U.S. Civil War was the time more opportune for Americans to abolish slavery than the revolutionary era during the 1770s and 1780s. It represented a unique occasion to end the "peculiar institution" but for five related reasons, according to Nash, the revolutionary leaders of the nation failed to seize this possibility.For Nash the five reasons are: "First, it was the era when the sentiment for ridding American society of the peculiar institution was the strongest. Second, it was the moment when the most resistant part of the new nation, the lower South, was most precariously situated and thus manifestly ill-prepared to break away from the rest of the states. Third, it was a period when the system of thought called environmentalism was in full sway, suggesting that the degraded condition of slaves was a matter of social conditioning, not innate inferiority. Fourth, it was a time when the opening of the vast trans-Appalachian West provided the wherewithal for a compensated emancipation. Lastly, it was the era when the use of this western domain as an instrument for binding the nation together had moved to the forefront of the public mind and when the existence of this vast unsettled territory as part of a national domain provided an area where free slaves could be colonized if they were not to be permitted to remain in the settled parts of the country" (pp. 6-7).
This was a heady time with possibilities abounding. Nash relates this story in three core chapters on (1) the embrace of abolitionism, (2) the failure of abolitionism, and (3) the role of blacks in the new nation. He follows this with a collection of key documents that illuminate and extend his central argument. This is a complex and important book.
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Simply a revisionist, apologist, anti-American "historian"., Dec 14 2009
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For anyone interested in reading this book, or anything else by Gary B. Nash- please consider that these are the works of a revisionist, apologist, and anti-American "historian". I refuse to even sell back his books to my local used book store. They are simply placed in the garbage where they belong. There are so many fantastic historians out there. Don't waste your time, your money or pollute your mind.
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