{"product_id":"the-black-newspaper-and-the-benjamin-fagan-9780820354699","title":"The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation \u003c\/em\u003eshows how antebellum African Americans used the newspaper as a means for translating their belief in black \"chosenness\" into plans and programs for black liberation. During the decades leading up the Civil War, the idea that God had marked black Americans as his chosen people on earth became a central article of faith in northern black communities, with black newspaper editors articulating it in their journals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Fagan shows how the early black press helped shape the relationship between black chosenness and the struggles for black freedom and equality in America, in the process transforming the very notion of a chosen American nation. Exploring how cultures of print helped antebellum black Americans apply their faith to struggles grand and small, \u003cem\u003eThe Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation\u003c\/em\u003e uses the vast and neglected archive of the early black press to shed new light on many of the central figures and questions of African American studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Fagan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820354694\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820354699\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d","brand":"Benjamin Fagan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926518169855,"sku":"9780820354699","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4377951a-c4dc-4c96-8f6f-d71824699885.jpg?v=1681083506","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-black-newspaper-and-the-benjamin-fagan-9780820354699","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}