A Nation Within a Nation

by John Ernest

John Ernest offers a comprehensive survey of the broad-ranging and influential African American organizations and networks formed in the North in the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War. He examines fraternal organizations, churches, conventions, mutual aid benefit and literary societies, educational organizations, newspapers, and magazines. Ernest argues these organizations demonstrate how African Americans self-definition was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566638070
• ISBN13: 9781566638074
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"