HERBERT APTHEKER has taught at many leading institutions, including Bryn Mawr College and Yale University. He has just retired from his post at the University of California (Berkeley). The author of over eighty volumes, his best known works include American Negro Slave Revolts (1943), A Documentary History of Negro People (4 vols., to 1945), Abolitionism (1989), and Literary Legacy of Du Bois (1989). He is the editor of the Du Bois Correspondence (3 vols.), Du Bois' Complete Published Writings (37 vols.), and four volumes of his previously unpublished writings.

• IntroductionAnti-Racism: Denial and DistortionQuestioning Racism's PervasivenessAnti-Racism's Presence: Examples from the LiteratureSexual RelationsRejecting Racism by Joint StruggleGrégoire, Banneker, and Jeffersonianism"Inferiority" and Poets, Preachers, and Teachers"Inferiority" and Entrepreneurs, Seamen, and CowboysFrom Egypt to Philosophes to QuakersThe American and French RevolutionsThe Republic's Early YearsThe New Century's YouthLane Rebels and Black RebelsAbolitionism and RacismImmortals of Literature and Martyrs for FreedomFrom Liberty Party to Republican PartyThe Crisis DecadeThe Civil War and EmancipationBibliographic CommentIndex

HERBERT APTHEKER has taught at many leading institutions, including Bryn Mawr College and Yale University. He has just retired from his post at the University of California (Berkeley). The author of over eighty volumes, his best known works include American Negro Slave Revolts (1943), A Documentary History of Negro People (4 vols., to 1945), Abolitionism (1989), and Literary Legacy of Du Bois (1989). He is the editor of the Du Bois Correspondence (3 vols.), Du Bois' Complete Published Writings (37 vols.), and four volumes of his previously unpublished writings.

• IntroductionAnti-Racism: Denial and DistortionQuestioning Racism's PervasivenessAnti-Racism's Presence: Examples from the LiteratureSexual RelationsRejecting Racism by Joint StruggleGrégoire, Banneker, and Jeffersonianism"Inferiority" and Poets, Preachers, and Teachers"Inferiority" and Entrepreneurs, Seamen, and CowboysFrom Egypt to Philosophes to QuakersThe American and French RevolutionsThe Republic's Early YearsThe New Century's YouthLane Rebels and Black RebelsAbolitionism and RacismImmortals of Literature and Martyrs for FreedomFrom Liberty Party to Republican PartyThe Crisis DecadeThe Civil War and EmancipationBibliographic CommentIndex

HERBERT APTHEKER has taught at many leading institutions, including Bryn Mawr College and Yale University. He has just retired from his post at the University of California (Berkeley). The author of over eighty volumes, his best known works include American Negro Slave Revolts (1943), A Documentary History of Negro People (4 vols., to 1945), Abolitionism (1989), and Literary Legacy of Du Bois (1989). He is the editor of the Du Bois Correspondence (3 vols.), Du Bois' Complete Published Writings (37 vols.), and four volumes of his previously unpublished writings.

• IntroductionAnti-Racism: Denial and DistortionQuestioning Racism's PervasivenessAnti-Racism's Presence: Examples from the LiteratureSexual RelationsRejecting Racism by Joint StruggleGrégoire, Banneker, and Jeffersonianism"Inferiority" and Poets, Preachers, and Teachers"Inferiority" and Entrepreneurs, Seamen, and CowboysFrom Egypt to Philosophes to QuakersThe American and French RevolutionsThe Republic's Early YearsThe New Century's YouthLane Rebels and Black RebelsAbolitionism and RacismImmortals of Literature and Martyrs for FreedomFrom Liberty Party to Republican PartyThe Crisis DecadeThe Civil War and EmancipationBibliographic CommentIndex