James W.C. Pennington : Essays Toward Rediscovering a Great African American Intellectual and Reformer

著者名：Stievermann, Jan (EDT)/Smith, Caitlin B. (EDT)/Glaude, Eddie S. (EDT)

Oxford University Press（2025/11/07発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780197690703
• eISBN：9780197690727

Description

In tandem with its companion volume, The Fugitive Blacksmith and Other Essential Writings by James W.C. Pennington, this collection of new essays seeks to recover and reappraise James W.C. Pennington (1808-1870), a truly remarkable figure of Black intellectual and political history who is unjustly overlooked today. Written by an international group of scholars from a variety of disciplines, these essays illuminate different parts of Pennington's life and career after escaping from slavery in 1827, discussing his role as reformer, political activist, and theologian. They discuss Pennington's major works including A Text Book of the Origin and History of the Colored People (1841) and his autobiography, The Fugitive Blacksmith (1849), and explore Pennington's understanding of and fight for human rights, his selective engagement with Romantic ideas of historicism and culture, and his concept of Black perfectionism. Together the essays bring to life Pennington not just as a historical figure but as a thinker deeply relevant to contemporary conversations about, among other things, the entanglements of race and religion, human rights, democracy, and America's unfinished reconstruction.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionJan Stievermann: "Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington: Black Reformed Minister, Intellectual, and Activist"I. Transatlantic ReformJohn Ernest:"Pennington, the Colored Conventions Movement, and the Struggle for Black Self-Determination"Manisha Sinha:"Reverend James W.C. Pennington's Transnational Abolitionist Mission" Sandra M. Gustafson:"James W.C. Pennington and the Peace Cause"Mischa Honeck:"Revolutionary Encounters: American Abolitionists and Europe's 1848ers"II. Philosophy and PoliticsJohn Witte Jr.:"James W.C. Pennington's Human Rights Campaign"Kenyon Gradert:"James W. C. Pennington's Romanticism"Eddie Glaude Jr.:"'To make me more efficient for good': Black Democratic Perfectionism and James W.C. Pennington"III. Religious Contexts, Theology, and Literary EthicsJan Stievermann:"James W.C. Pennington and the New Divinity Tradition"Caitlin B. Smith:"'What is this but Infidelity?': James W.C. Pennington's Engagements with Skepticism"William L. Andrews:"Freedom vs. Family in the Pre-Emancipation African American Fugitive Slave Narrative: The Singular Case of James W. C. Pennington"