Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy

by Aptheker, Herbert; Foner, Eric; Marable, Manning

• ISBN13: 9780252077265
• ISBN10: 0252077261
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

This reader collects fourteen influential essays by Herbert Aptheker (19152003) on the African American experience. Written with passion and eloquence, they are full of ideas originally dismissed by a white, segregated academy that have now become part of the scholarly mainstream. Covering topics including slave resistance, black abolitionists, Reconstruction, and W. E. B. Du Bois, these essays demonstrate the critical connection between political commitment and the advancement of scholarship, while restoring Aptheker's central place as one of the founding scholars in the development of African American studies.

Author Biography

Herbert Aptheker was a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts. His works include American Negro Slave Revolts, Abolitionism: A Revolutionary Movement, and The Correspondence of W. E. B. Du Bois. Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and the former president of both the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. His works include The Story of American Freedom. Manning Marable is the M. Moran Weston and Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies at Columbia University and director of the Center for Contemporary Black History. His works include Living Black History: How Reimagining the African-American Past Can Remake America's Racial Future.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Introduction: A Biographical Sketch	p. xi
An Appreciation	p. xix
Negro History: Its Lessons for Our Time	p. 1
Maroons within the Present Limits of the United States	p. 18
The Negro in the Abolitionist Movement	p. 32
Militant Abolitionism	p. 57
Class Conflicts in the South-1850-60	p. 97
Notes from Negro History: The Struggle within the Ranks	p. 112
The Negro Woman	p. 121
The American Civil War: A Centenary Article	p. 128
Black-White Unity: A Basic Theme and Need in United States History	p. 144
Mississippi Reconstruction and the Negro Leader, Charles Caldwell	p. 151
Literacy: The Negro and World War II	p. 173
The Negro People in America: A Critique of Gunnar Myrdal's "An American Dilemma"	p. 184
Introduction to "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade"	p. 198
Personal Reflections on W. E. B. Du Bois: The Person, Scholar and Activist-Herbert and Fay Aptheker	p. 210
Epilogue: The Historical Scholarship of Herbert Aptheker-Eric Foner	p. 246
Sources	p. 259
Index	p. 261
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