Patrick Rael
Biographic Data
| ID | 1167423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Rael |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Rael |
| SIGNATURE | RAEL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowdoin College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Remaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship
In Remaking the Republic, Christopher James Bonner explores “black citizenship politics,” or the efforts by African American activists in the free states of antebellum America to invoke claims of citizenship in seeking liberty and equality from a society dedicated to slavery and racial caste. He argues that “free black activists in the northern states publicly challenged racial exclusion by calling themselves citizens, invoking the status to clai…
Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France
The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic
Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777–1865
Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic
In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of slaves and was well on her way to amassing the fortune that would make her the richest black resident in the nearby colony of Demerara. What made the transaction notable was that Betty was Dorothy Thomas’s mother and that fifteen years earlier Dorothy had purchased her own freedom and that of her children…
Finding Charity's Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland
Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance
Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860
Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860. Edited by Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, and Phillip Lapsansky. (New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. viii, 326. $45.00.) In the final pamphlet in this anthology, a reprinted speech by T. Morton Chester before the Library Company in 1862, the author urges his audience to replace the pictures of white heroes on their walls with equally worthy African Americans. li…
A Nation within a Nation: Organizing African-American Communities before the Civil War
We Are the Revolutionists: German-Speaking Immigrants and American Abolitionists after 1848
A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic TitleWidely remembered as a time of heated debate over the westward expansion of slavery, the 1850s in the United States was also a period of mass immigration. As the sectional conflict escalated, discontented Europeans came in record numbers, further dividing the young republic over issues of race, nationality, and citizenship. The arrival of German-speaking Forty-Eighters, refugees of the failed European r…
Contentious Liberties: American Abolitionists in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1834-1866
The Oberlin College to Jamaica, begun in the 1830s, was an ambitious, and ultimately troubled, effort to use the example of emancipation in the British West Indies to advance the domestic agenda of American abolitionists. White Americans hoped to argue that American slaves, once freed, could be absorbed productively into the society that had previously enslaved them, but their civilizing mission did not go as anticipated. Gale L. Kenny's illumina…
In Search of Brightest Africa: Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884-1936
Free Black Activism in the Antebellum North
IN FEW OTHER REALMS of historical scholarship have the last three decades witnessed such all-encompassing transformations as in AfricanAmerican history. The Civil Rights Movement changed the way scholars have written about slavery, but the broad wake created by that revolution in the history of the peculiar has struck every other facet of African-American history as well. During the 1970s, even as scholars penned now-classic works on the plantati…
The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves
New Directions in the History of Free Black Activism in the Antebellum North
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
Black identity and Black protest in the antebellum North
The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race
The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race. By John Stauffer. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. 367. Illustrations. Cloth, $29.95.) Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North. By Patrick Rael. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 421. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95.) The proof that many roads lead to the past lies in reading these two books one after the othe…
Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860
Don't Get Weary: Enslaved African Americans in Eighteenth-Century Alexandria
William Lloyd Garrison and the Fight against Slavery: "Selections from "The Liberator
Don't Get Weary: Enslaved African Americans in Eighteenth-Century Alexandria
William Lloyd Garrison and the Fight against Slavery: "Selections from "The Liberator
Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860
Black identity and Black protest in the antebellum North
The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race
The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race. By John Stauffer. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. 367. Illustrations. Cloth, $29.95.) Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North. By Patrick Rael. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 421. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95.) The proof that many roads lead to the past lies in reading these two books one after the othe…
New Directions in the History of Free Black Activism in the Antebellum North
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
The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves
Free Black Activism in the Antebellum North
IN FEW OTHER REALMS of historical scholarship have the last three decades witnessed such all-encompassing transformations as in AfricanAmerican history. The Civil Rights Movement changed the way scholars have written about slavery, but the broad wake created by that revolution in the history of the peculiar has struck every other facet of African-American history as well. During the 1970s, even as scholars penned now-classic works on the plantati…
Contentious Liberties: American Abolitionists in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1834-1866
The Oberlin College to Jamaica, begun in the 1830s, was an ambitious, and ultimately troubled, effort to use the example of emancipation in the British West Indies to advance the domestic agenda of American abolitionists. White Americans hoped to argue that American slaves, once freed, could be absorbed productively into the society that had previously enslaved them, but their civilizing mission did not go as anticipated. Gale L. Kenny's illumina…
In Search of Brightest Africa: Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884-1936
We Are the Revolutionists: German-Speaking Immigrants and American Abolitionists after 1848
A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic TitleWidely remembered as a time of heated debate over the westward expansion of slavery, the 1850s in the United States was also a period of mass immigration. As the sectional conflict escalated, discontented Europeans came in record numbers, further dividing the young republic over issues of race, nationality, and citizenship. The arrival of German-speaking Forty-Eighters, refugees of the failed European r…
Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860
Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860. Edited by Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, and Phillip Lapsansky. (New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. viii, 326. $45.00.) In the final pamphlet in this anthology, a reprinted speech by T. Morton Chester before the Library Company in 1862, the author urges his audience to replace the pictures of white heroes on their walls with equally worthy African Americans. li…
A Nation within a Nation: Organizing African-American Communities before the Civil War
Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance
Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777–1865
Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic
In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of slaves and was well on her way to amassing the fortune that would make her the richest black resident in the nearby colony of Demerara. What made the transaction notable was that Betty was Dorothy Thomas’s mother and that fifteen years earlier Dorothy had purchased her own freedom and that of her children…
Finding Charity's Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland
The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic
Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France
Remaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship
In Remaking the Republic, Christopher James Bonner explores “black citizenship politics,” or the efforts by African American activists in the free states of antebellum America to invoke claims of citizenship in seeking liberty and equality from a society dedicated to slavery and racial caste. He argues that “free black activists in the northern states publicly challenged racial exclusion by calling themselves citizens, invoking the status to clai…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · History (11 works) · Race, History, and American Society (11 works) · Law (10 works) · History (7 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (6 works) · united states (6 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)