George A Levesque
Biographic Data
| ID | 653327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George A Levesque |
| GIVEN NAMES | George A |
| FAMILY NAME | Levesque |
| SIGNATURE | LEVESQUE G A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865
In 1854, following the rendition of Anthony Burns, Theodore Parker, one of Boston's leading, radical abolitionists, told an overflow audience in Faneuil Hall that “There is no Boston today. There was a Boston once. Now there is a north suburb of the city of Alexandria [Virginia]” (p. 618). The idea of Boston, the apotheosis of the city-state, is not told or explained or understood by the air-brushed, vaunted history with its idealization of John …
Black Boston: African American Life and Culture in Urban America, 1750–1860
Between the Revolution and the Civil War, non-slave black Americans existed in the no-man’s land between slavery and freedom. The two generations defined by these two titanic struggles for national survival saw black Bostonians struggle to make real the quintessential values of individual freedom and equality promised by the Revolution. Levesque’s richly detailed study fills a significant void in our understanding of the formative years of black …
Robert Love's Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston
Journal Article Robert Love's Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston Get access Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. Salinger. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. xii, 260 pp. $34.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1254–1255, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav086 Published: 01 March 2015
Black Boston: African American Life and Culture in Urban America, 1750-1860
Black Boston: African American Life and Culture in Urban America, 1750-1860
Journal Article Black Boston: African American Life and Culture in Urban America, 1730–1860. By George A. Levesque. (New York: Garland, 1994. xviii, 537 pp. $95.00, ISBN 0-8153-1593-7.) Get access Roy E. Finkenbine Roy E. Finkenbine Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Pages 1186–1187, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
Black Boston: African American Life and Culture in Urban America, 1750- 1860
Between the Revolution and the Civil War, non-slave black Americans existed in the no-man’s land between slavery and freedom. The two generations defined by these two titanic struggles for national survival saw black Bostonians struggle to make real the quintessential values of individual freedom and equality promised by the Revolution. Levesque’s richly detailed study fills a significant void in our understanding of the formative years of black …
Black Sailors: Afro-American Seamen and Whalemen Prior to the Civil War
Slavery in the Ideology and Politics of the Revolutionary Generation
Was there a prevailing ideology in early American political discourse? To judge from the great variety of competing interpretations published over the past three decades, the answer would appear to be an unequivocal "No."1 Despite (and most assuredly because of) the contrariness of interpretation since the 1950s, a recent overview of political culture at the time Americans were launching the Revolution and formulating the Constitution persuasivel…
The Free Black in Urban America, 1800-1850: The Shadow of the Dream
Interpreting Early Black Ideology: A Reappraisal of Historical Consensus
In The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual published in 1967, Harold Cruse observed that was then (and he implied always had been) broad strain of Negro social opinion in America ... [which] cannot be and never has been encompassed by the program of an organization such as the NAACP, whose implied definition of racial integration offers no answers to the questions that agitate the collective minds of those Negroes who reject such a philosophy.* The …
Black Culture, the Black Esthetic, Black Chauvinism: A Mild Dissent
Whether cause or consequence, the Civil Rights Revolution of the 1960s revived a militant brand of black nationalism among (especially) young American blacks. In academic circles ostentatious nationalism (popularly celebrated by the slogan "Black is Beautiful" and the wearing of Dashikis) generated a heated debate over whether black culture was different from, and therefore distinct from, the larger American culture. Generated by events which too…
Black Crime and Crime Statistics in Antebellum Boston
Before Integration: The Forgotten Years of Jim Crow Education in Boston
In 1846, subcommittee of Primary School Committee and three years later special committee of Grammar School Board -the two agencies with plenary oversight of public education Boston-issued two long reports response to petitions from black parents opposed to exclusive schools. In first, Negro parents charged the establishment of exclusive denied them equal privileges; deprived them of harmonizing, socializing influence... of integrated education; …
Biracialism, the "Central Theme" Thesis, and the Emergence of Southern Sectionalism
Inherent Reformers-Inherited Orthodoxy: Black Baptists in Boston, 1800-1873
Black Abolitionists in the Age of Jackson: Catalysts in the Radicalization of American Abolitionism
While among us, blacks have never been permitted to become one of us. Being black is to arrive early at the realization that although you are a part of the society, you will always be apart from the society. These expressions have achieved a degree of currency in America today, but the ideas behind the language dressing are anything but new. James Baldwin may decry the fact that nobody knows his name, and Ralph Ellison that he is an invisible man…
The Free Black in Urban America, 1800-1850: The Shadow of the Dream
Black Culture, the Black Esthetic, Black Chauvinism: A Mild Dissent
Whether cause or consequence, the Civil Rights Revolution of the 1960s revived a militant brand of black nationalism among (especially) young American blacks. In academic circles ostentatious nationalism (popularly celebrated by the slogan "Black is Beautiful" and the wearing of Dashikis) generated a heated debate over whether black culture was different from, and therefore distinct from, the larger American culture. Generated by events which too…
Black Abolitionists in the Age of Jackson: Catalysts in the Radicalization of American Abolitionism
While among us, blacks have never been permitted to become one of us. Being black is to arrive early at the realization that although you are a part of the society, you will always be apart from the society. These expressions have achieved a degree of currency in America today, but the ideas behind the language dressing are anything but new. James Baldwin may decry the fact that nobody knows his name, and Ralph Ellison that he is an invisible man…
Biracialism, the "Central Theme" Thesis, and the Emergence of Southern Sectionalism
Inherent Reformers-Inherited Orthodoxy: Black Baptists in Boston, 1800-1873
Black Crime and Crime Statistics in Antebellum Boston
Before Integration: The Forgotten Years of Jim Crow Education in Boston
In 1846, subcommittee of Primary School Committee and three years later special committee of Grammar School Board -the two agencies with plenary oversight of public education Boston-issued two long reports response to petitions from black parents opposed to exclusive schools. In first, Negro parents charged the establishment of exclusive denied them equal privileges; deprived them of harmonizing, socializing influence... of integrated education; …
Interpreting Early Black Ideology: A Reappraisal of Historical Consensus
In The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual published in 1967, Harold Cruse observed that was then (and he implied always had been) broad strain of Negro social opinion in America ... [which] cannot be and never has been encompassed by the program of an organization such as the NAACP, whose implied definition of racial integration offers no answers to the questions that agitate the collective minds of those Negroes who reject such a philosophy.* The …
Black Culture, the Black Esthetic, Black Chauvinism: A Mild Dissent
Whether cause or consequence, the Civil Rights Revolution of the 1960s revived a militant brand of black nationalism among (especially) young American blacks. In academic circles ostentatious nationalism (popularly celebrated by the slogan "Black is Beautiful" and the wearing of Dashikis) generated a heated debate over whether black culture was different from, and therefore distinct from, the larger American culture. Generated by events which too…
The Free Black in Urban America, 1800-1850: The Shadow of the Dream
Slavery in the Ideology and Politics of the Revolutionary Generation
Was there a prevailing ideology in early American political discourse? To judge from the great variety of competing interpretations published over the past three decades, the answer would appear to be an unequivocal "No."1 Despite (and most assuredly because of) the contrariness of interpretation since the 1950s, a recent overview of political culture at the time Americans were launching the Revolution and formulating the Constitution persuasivel…
Black Sailors: Afro-American Seamen and Whalemen Prior to the Civil War
Black Boston: African American Life and Culture in Urban America, 1750-1860
Black Boston: African American Life and Culture in Urban America, 1750-1860
Journal Article Black Boston: African American Life and Culture in Urban America, 1730–1860. By George A. Levesque. (New York: Garland, 1994. xviii, 537 pp. $95.00, ISBN 0-8153-1593-7.) Get access Roy E. Finkenbine Roy E. Finkenbine Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Pages 1186–1187, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
Black Boston: African American Life and Culture in Urban America, 1750- 1860
Between the Revolution and the Civil War, non-slave black Americans existed in the no-man’s land between slavery and freedom. The two generations defined by these two titanic struggles for national survival saw black Bostonians struggle to make real the quintessential values of individual freedom and equality promised by the Revolution. Levesque’s richly detailed study fills a significant void in our understanding of the formative years of black …
Robert Love's Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston
Journal Article Robert Love's Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston Get access Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. Salinger. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. xii, 260 pp. $34.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1254–1255, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav086 Published: 01 March 2015
Black Boston: African American Life and Culture in Urban America, 1750–1860
Between the Revolution and the Civil War, non-slave black Americans existed in the no-man’s land between slavery and freedom. The two generations defined by these two titanic struggles for national survival saw black Bostonians struggle to make real the quintessential values of individual freedom and equality promised by the Revolution. Levesque’s richly detailed study fills a significant void in our understanding of the formative years of black …
The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865
In 1854, following the rendition of Anthony Burns, Theodore Parker, one of Boston's leading, radical abolitionists, told an overflow audience in Faneuil Hall that “There is no Boston today. There was a Boston once. Now there is a north suburb of the city of Alexandria [Virginia]” (p. 618). The idea of Boston, the apotheosis of the city-state, is not told or explained or understood by the air-brushed, vaunted history with its idealization of John …
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