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

James W.C. Pennington: Essays Toward Rediscovering a Great African American Intellectual and Reformer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780197690710)

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

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

$35.00
James W.C. Pennington: Essays Toward Rediscovering a Great African American Intellectual and Reformer by Stievermann, Jan

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

$35.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Jan Stievermann
ISBN-10: 0197690718
ISBN-13: 9780197690710
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/24/2025
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
By Jan Stievermann
By Jan Stievermann
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Jan Stievermann is Professor of the History of Christianity in the U.S. at Heidelberg University. He has written books and essays on a range of topics in the fields of American religious history and American literature, including Prophecy, Piety, and the Problem of Historicity: Interpreting the Hebrew Scriptures in Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana (2016).

Caitlin B. Smith is Assistant Professor of Early American Literature at St. Bonaventure University. She has published multiple journal articles on nineteenth-century American literature and religion, with a special focus on early freethinking societies and constructions of doubt.

Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own and We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For. Glaude is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University.

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