A Gentleman of Color
The Life of James Forten
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19972788 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julie Winch (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Pages | 501 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-24 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | A gentleman of color (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780195086911.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4388285935 |
| Open Library | OL3947940M |
| ISBN | 9780195086911 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
In A Gentleman of Color, Julie Winch provides a vividly written, full-length biography of James Forten, one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America. Forten was born in 1766 into a free black family. As a teenager he served in the Revolution and was captured by the British. Rejecting an attractive offer to change sides, he insisted he was a loyal American. By 1810 he was the leading sailmaker in Philadelphia, where he became well known as an innovative craftsman, a successful manager of black and white employees, and a shrewd businessman. He emerged as a leader in Philadelphia’s black community and was active in a wide range of reform activities. He was especially prominent in national and international antislavery movements, served as vice-president of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and became close friends with William Lloyd Garrison, to whom he lent money to start up the Liberator. Forten was also the founder of a remarkable dynasty. His children and his son-in-law were all active abolitionists and a granddaughter, Charlotte Forten, published a famous diary of her experiences teaching ex-slaves in South Carolina’s Sea Islands during the Civil War. When James Forten died in 1842, five thousand mourners, black and white, turned out to honor a man who had earned the respect of society across the racial divide. This is the first serious biography of Forten, who stands beside Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Martin Luther King, Jr. in the pantheon of African-Americans who fundamentally shaped American history
Archaeology · Art history · Biography · Honor · Political science · Spanish Civil War · White (mutation) · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · Classics · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society · African American abolitionists · African American businesspeople · African American soldiers · African americans · Free African Americans · James Forten (1766-1842) · Pennsylvania · Philadelphia · Sailmakers
Maria Firmina dos Reis, Nineteenth-Century Maranhão (Brazil)
Emma Lane Coger, Nineteenth-Century Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri (US)
Minerva, Nineteenth-Century Téjas and Louisiana (US), and Mexico
Cécile Fatiman and Petra Carabalí, Late Eighteenth-Century Haiti and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Paula de Eguiluz, Seventeenth-Century Puerto Rico, Cuba, and New Granada (Colombia)
Juana María Álvarez, Eighteenth-Century New Granada (Colombia)
Slavery and the Declaration
Anna Maria Lopes de Brito, Eighteenth-Century Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Judith and Hannah
María Remedios del Valle, Nineteenth-Century Argentina
Sarah Chauqum, Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island and Connecticut (US)
Hannah Manena McKenney, Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Bermuda and New Providence (Bahamas)
Reytory Angola, Seventeenth-Century Manhattan (US)
As If She Were Free
Laura E. Davis Titus, Nineteenth-Century Norfolk, Virginia (US)
Africans and Immigrants
The Antinomies of Black Identity Formation in West Africa, 1820–1848
This Beautiful and Rapidly Improving Section of Our City”
Cuffe's Black Atlantic World, 1808–1817
Going home
Beyond the American Colonization Society
Haiti's connection to early America
The Slave Trade Act of 1819
William Johnson's Hypothesis
Africans and Immigrants
Birthright Citizens
From motives of generosity, as well as self‐preservation’
Gendered rhetoric and black Civil War military recruiting
The Art of Racial Politics
A Person of Good Character and Considerable Property”
The difference of colour
Frances Ellen Watkins
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,28 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |