Wilson Moses bases this collection of essays on the thought of five major African-American intellectuals: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and Marcus J. Garvey. Highlighting the intellectual struggles and contradictions of these personalities, with regard to individual morality and collective reform, Moses reveals how they contributed to strategies for black progress. He analyzes their thinking within the contexts of Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, Social Darwinism, and progressivism. Wilson J. Moses is Ferree Professor of American History and Senior Fellow of the Arts and Humanities Institute at the Pennsylvania State University. He has been Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the Free University of Berlin and Fulbright Guest Professor at the University of Vienna. His books include Liberian Dreams: Back to Africa Narratives from the 1850s (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998), and Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History (Cambridge, 1998).
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"Professor Moses has written an important and engaging book of which specialists will be particularly enamored. Its unusual approach in interrogating the lives and leadership of these important African American leaders alone makes it worthwhile." -Bernard E. Powers Jr., History of Intellectual Culture
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Professor Moses has revised and brought together in this book essays that focus on the complexity of, and contraditctions in, the thought of five major African-American intellectuals: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and Marcus J. Garvey. In analyzing the intellectual struggles and contradictions of these five dominant personalities with regard to individual morality and collective reform, Professor Moses shows how they contributed to strategies for black improvement and puts them withing the context of other currents of American thought, including Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, Social Darwinism, and progressivism.
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To be engaged in the eternal struggle of the human mind - to contemplate the tensions and ambiguities of a perpetually mysterious universe - was Alexander Crummell's definition of heaven. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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To be engaged in the eternal struggle of the human mind - to contemplate the tensions and ambiguities of a perpetually mysterious universe - was Alexander Crummell's definition of heaven. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
racial collectivism, triumphant commercialism, black spokesman, moral preachments, white injustice, black nationalism, race ideal, black separatism, other black men, black religion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, African American, United States, Marcus Garvey, American Negro Academy, Civil War, Black Star Line, The Conservation of Races, Oxford University Press, West Africa, Edward Wilmot Blyden, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Mercer Langston, The Anglophile, Washington Papers, August Meier, Black Belt Diamonds, Max Weber, The Democrat, Theodore Roosevelt, Library of America, Martin Delany New!
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- The Souls of Black Folk (Modern Library) by W.E.B. Du Bois on 31 pages
- Destiny and Race: Selected Writings, 1840-1898 by Alexander Crummell on 17 pages
- Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington on 16 pages
- My Bondage and My Freedom (Penguin Classics) by Frederick Douglass on 9 pages
- Booker T. Washington: Volume 1: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901 (Galaxy Book: 428) by Louis R. Harlan on 9 pages
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