Freedom's Journal

Jacqueline Bacon is a writer and scholar living in San Diego. She is the author of The Humblest May Stand Forth: Rhetoric, Empowerment, and Abolition.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: A Clap of ThunderChapter 2 "The Time Has Now Arrived": The African-American Community of the Late 1820sChapter 3 The History of Freedom's JournalChapter 4 "Whatever Concerns Us As a People": The Goal of Freedom's JournalChapter 5 "Be Up and Doing": Self-HelpChapter 6 Men and Women, Private and PublicChapter 7 Redemption, Regeneration, Revolution: Africa and HaitiChapter 8 "Save Us from Our Friends": Colonization and EmigrationChapter 9 "Our Brethren Who Are Still in Bondage": Slavery and AntislaveryChapter 10 "Echoes and Re-Echoes": The Impact and Legacy of Freedom's Journal

Jacqueline Bacon's well-written manuscript promises to be a significant contribution to scholarship in African-American history, nineteenth-century reform, and American journalism. This is an important work.