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Black Mosaic : Essays in Afro-American History and Historiography
author
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Quarles, Benjamin.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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0870236059
print isbn13
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9780870236051
ebook isbn13
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9780585084077
language
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English
subject
African Americans--History, African Americans--Historiography, United States--Race relations.
publication date
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1988
lcc
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E185.Q19 1988eb
ddc
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973/.0496073
subject
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African Americans--History, African Americans--Historiography, United States--Race relations.
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Black Mosaic
Essays in Afro-American History and Historiography
Benjamin Quarles
Introduction by August Meier
THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS AMHERST
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Copyright 1988 by Benjamin Quarles All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Designed by Susan Bishop Set in Linotron Sabon at Rainsford Type Printed by Cushing-Malloy and bound by John Dekker & Sons
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Quarles, Benjamin. Black Mosaic
1. Afro-AmericansHistory. 2. Afro-Americans Historiography. 3. United StatesRace relations. I. Title. E185.Q19 1988 973'.0496073 87-13929 ISBN 0-87023-605-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Chapters in this book were previously published in journals and collections. Their earlier appearances and permissions to reprint are listed on the last printed page of this book.
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To my grandsons, James and Jonathan
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CONTENTS
Introduction: Benjamin Quarles and the Historiography of Black America
August Meier
3
Blacks in the Revolutionary Period
1. The Colonial Militia and Negro Manpower
25
2. Lord Dunmore as Liberator
35
3. The Revolutionary War as a Black Declaration of Independence
48
Blacks in Abolition and Civil War
4. Sources of Abolitionist Income
67
5. Ministers without Portfolio
80
6. Antebellum Free Blacks and the "Spirit of '76"
92
7. Black History's Antebellum Origins
109
8. The Abduction of the Planter
135
Blacks in the Twentieth Century
9. The Morning Breaks: Black America, 19101935
143
10. A. Philip Randolph: Labor Leader at Large
151
Black History
11. Black History Unbound
181
12. Black History's Diversified Clientele
202
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INTRODUCTION: BENJAMIN QUARLES AND THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF BLACK AMERICA
It has been nearly half a century since Benjamin Quarles published his first scholarly article in the field of Afro-American history.1 With the appearance of his biography of Frederick Douglass in 1948, Quarles became a major contributor to the history of the black experience from the Revolutionary War through the Civil War. His leading works include the standard volumes on the role of Negroes in both of those conflicts, pioneering studies on black participation in the abolitionist movement, and two monographs on the interrelation between blacks and major white antislavery figures. Given the collective importance of this corpus of work, including the essays reprinted herein, this seems an appropriate time to assess his contribution.
As a scholar, Quarles was a "late bloomer," and in fact his achievement was accomplished under considerable odds. He was born in 1904, one of five children of a Boston subway porter. After finishing high school he worked for several years as a passenger steamship porter and Florida hotel bellhop,2 and did not enter college until he was twenty-three. It was as a sophomore at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, that Quarles was first introduced to Negro history by an inspiring white woman teacher. Subsequently a Social Science Research Council fellowship enabled him to start graduate work at the University of Wisconsin in 1931. Members of the University of Wisconsin history faculty at the time assumed that blacks could not write "objectively" about their past. Even Quarles's liberal and supportive M.A. advisor, Carl Russell Fish, who at this time, just before his death, was rounding out ten years of service as a member of the council of the Association for
1Quarles, "The Breach Between Douglass and Garrison," Journal of Negro History (April 1938): 14454.
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