Benjamin T Lynerd
Biographic Data
| ID | 911236 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin T Lynerd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin T |
| FAMILY NAME | Lynerd |
| SIGNATURE | LYNERD B T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Christopher Newport University Newport News, Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0687-6893 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Structure and agency in emancipatory reform
The National Labor Convention of 1869, the first of its kind for African American workers, yielded a grand strategy for achieving full emancipation, in which those long subjected to domination might attain durable independence. Drawing upon decades of Black republican thought, this agenda combined macro‐level reforms targeting agrarian and industrial monopolies with micro‐level interventions into the habits of the working class. While the project…
Before the Religious Right
“A Natural Right to the Soil”
African American periodicals in the antebellum era advocated a fartherreaching agenda than just the abolition of slavery. Taking up a mantle of agrarian equality that runs through the English Commonwealthmen, Jefferson, Paine, and the Free-Soil movement of the 1840s, Black abolitionists—in contrast to the Garrisonians—targeted land monopolies as the economic foundation of the chattel system, whose elimination would be a necessary condition for th…
Emancipation, the Ager Publicus , and Black Political Thought
After the Civil War, Black newspapers, from the Loyal Georgian to the San Francisco Elevator, encouraged lawmakers to leverage public land as a means of emancipation. Drawing on neoclassical agrarian theories that link civil freedom to a wide distribution of property, African American writers made a case for treating tens of millions of acres—including abandoned plantations—as an ager publicus for the settlement of Black homesteads and the creati…
Frederick Douglass and the African American Epistle
Scholars of rhetoric are drawn to the African American epistle, a subgenre of reformist literature that spans more than two centuries, by its structural features and by its impact on public discourse.1 An epistle is a private letter made public, or a moral commentary packaged into a personal missive. Its multilevel audience—the addressees on one tier, the broader readership on another—enables an ad hominem directness more intrinsic to religious t…
A distant mirror”
Sensemaking is an ongoing act of constructing a reality to be interpreted. While numerous articles have explored the notion of sensemaking in organizations, far fewer have examined it through the empirical prism of an individual case of sensemaking, with the notable exception of Weick’s seminal contribution and formulation, “The Collapse of Sensemaking in Organizations: The Mann Gulch Disaster” (1993). In this article, we seek to build on the lit…
The Theology of Liberalism
Eric Nelson has made it an ongoing mission to excavate the pipelines that run between modern theories of justice and late-medieval Christianity. This latest work explores the connection between contemporary liberalism and the resurgence of Pelagian thought in the sixteenth century. Nelson posits that the protoliberal thinkers, from Milton to Kant, developed the modern concept of liberty as a solution to “theodicy,” the apparent enigma that surrou…
Democratic Opposition to the Constitution
The Old Swiss Confederation stood as a contentious point of reference in the ratification debate of 1787–88. While Federalists disdained the loosely banded cantons as a template of dysfunction, Anti-Federalists commended their regionalized constitution and variable systems of government. One Anti-Federalist, writing a series of essays for the Maryland Gazette under the name “A Farmer,” went as far as to hold up the Landsgemeinde, an apparatus of …
Reply to John Compton
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The Purpose-Driven Darwinist
Henry Ward Beecher's sermon series on evolution in the summer of 1885 reconciled Christianity to the new science in a way that asserted far more than the mere compatibility of natural selection and divine providence: The Brooklyn preacher appropriated Darwinism to support a uniquely bourgeois political theology, one that envisioned the spiritual progress of humanity through commercial republicanism, aided by a morally assertive (but emphatically …
Emancipation, the Ager Publicus , and Black Political Thought
After the Civil War, Black newspapers, from the Loyal Georgian to the San Francisco Elevator, encouraged lawmakers to leverage public land as a means of emancipation. Drawing on neoclassical agrarian theories that link civil freedom to a wide distribution of property, African American writers made a case for treating tens of millions of acres—including abandoned plantations—as an ager publicus for the settlement of Black homesteads and the creati…
The Purpose-Driven Darwinist
Henry Ward Beecher's sermon series on evolution in the summer of 1885 reconciled Christianity to the new science in a way that asserted far more than the mere compatibility of natural selection and divine providence: The Brooklyn preacher appropriated Darwinism to support a uniquely bourgeois political theology, one that envisioned the spiritual progress of humanity through commercial republicanism, aided by a morally assertive (but emphatically …
Reply to John Compton
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Democratic Opposition to the Constitution
The Old Swiss Confederation stood as a contentious point of reference in the ratification debate of 1787–88. While Federalists disdained the loosely banded cantons as a template of dysfunction, Anti-Federalists commended their regionalized constitution and variable systems of government. One Anti-Federalist, writing a series of essays for the Maryland Gazette under the name “A Farmer,” went as far as to hold up the Landsgemeinde, an apparatus of …
A distant mirror”
Sensemaking is an ongoing act of constructing a reality to be interpreted. While numerous articles have explored the notion of sensemaking in organizations, far fewer have examined it through the empirical prism of an individual case of sensemaking, with the notable exception of Weick’s seminal contribution and formulation, “The Collapse of Sensemaking in Organizations: The Mann Gulch Disaster” (1993). In this article, we seek to build on the lit…
The Theology of Liberalism
Eric Nelson has made it an ongoing mission to excavate the pipelines that run between modern theories of justice and late-medieval Christianity. This latest work explores the connection between contemporary liberalism and the resurgence of Pelagian thought in the sixteenth century. Nelson posits that the protoliberal thinkers, from Milton to Kant, developed the modern concept of liberty as a solution to “theodicy,” the apparent enigma that surrou…
Frederick Douglass and the African American Epistle
Scholars of rhetoric are drawn to the African American epistle, a subgenre of reformist literature that spans more than two centuries, by its structural features and by its impact on public discourse.1 An epistle is a private letter made public, or a moral commentary packaged into a personal missive. Its multilevel audience—the addressees on one tier, the broader readership on another—enables an ad hominem directness more intrinsic to religious t…
“A Natural Right to the Soil”
African American periodicals in the antebellum era advocated a fartherreaching agenda than just the abolition of slavery. Taking up a mantle of agrarian equality that runs through the English Commonwealthmen, Jefferson, Paine, and the Free-Soil movement of the 1840s, Black abolitionists—in contrast to the Garrisonians—targeted land monopolies as the economic foundation of the chattel system, whose elimination would be a necessary condition for th…
Emancipation, the Ager Publicus , and Black Political Thought
After the Civil War, Black newspapers, from the Loyal Georgian to the San Francisco Elevator, encouraged lawmakers to leverage public land as a means of emancipation. Drawing on neoclassical agrarian theories that link civil freedom to a wide distribution of property, African American writers made a case for treating tens of millions of acres—including abandoned plantations—as an ager publicus for the settlement of Black homesteads and the creati…
Before the Religious Right
Structure and agency in emancipatory reform
The National Labor Convention of 1869, the first of its kind for African American workers, yielded a grand strategy for achieving full emancipation, in which those long subjected to domination might attain durable independence. Drawing upon decades of Black republican thought, this agenda combined macro‐level reforms targeting agrarian and industrial monopolies with micro‐level interventions into the habits of the working class. While the project…
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