To Heal the Scourge of Prejudice

by Easton, Hosea; Price, George R.; Stewart, James Brewer

• ISBN13: 9781558491854
• ISBN10: 1558491856
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Summary

How did racial prejudice originate and why has it been so deeply rooted in American culture? What have been the long-term effects of prejudice on the intellectual, communal, and psychological resources of African Americans? How might the nightmare of racial domination be truly brought to an end?

Author Biography

George R. Price teaches Native American studies at Salish Kootenai College and the University of Montana. James Brewer Stewart is James Wallace Professor of History at Macalaster College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Hosea Easton and the Agony of Race	1	(48)
``An Address: Delivered before the Coloured Population, of Providence, Rhode Island, on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 27, 1828''	49	(14)
A Treatise on the Intellectual Character, and the Civil and Political Condition of the Colored People of the U. States; and the Prejudice Exercised towards Them: With a Sermon on the Duty of the Church to Them	63	(2)
Preface	65	(2)
Introduction	67	(16)
On the Intellectual Character of the Colored People of these United States of America	83	(7)
On the Political Condition and Character of the Colored People	90	(9)
On the Nature of the Prejudice of the White Population of the United States, in its Malignant Exercise towards the Colored People	99	(14)
On the Claims of the Colored People to all the Civil, Religious, and Social Privileges of this Country	113