No One Who Reads the History of Hayti Can Doubt the Capacity of Colored Men

Racial Formation and Atlantic Rehabilitation in New York City's Early Black Press, 1827-1841

Bibliographic Data

ID5849982
AuthorsCharlton W Yingling (0000-0002-0707-5123, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume11
Issue2
Pages314-348
Publication date2013-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEarly American studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1543-4273 • E-ISSN: 1559-0895
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/eam.2013.0014
OpenAlexW2067030267
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited50

From 1827 to 1841 the black newspapers Freedom's Journal and the Colored American of New York City were venues for one of the first significant racial projects in the United States. To counter aspersions against their race, the editors of these publications renegotiated their community's identity within the matrix of the Black Atlantic away from waning discourses of a collective African past. First, Freedom's Journal used the Haitian Revolution to exemplify resistance, abolitionism, and autonomy. The Colored American later projected the Republic of Haiti as a model of governance, prosperity, and refinement to serve this community's own evolving ambitions of citizenship, inclusion, and rights

Abolitionism · Colored · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Race, History, and American Society

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