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Report of the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People
Excerpt from Report of the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People: Suffering From the Late Riots in the City of New York The Executive Committee appointed for the relief of the colored people of New York and the adjacent places, having in a great measure concluded the work assigned to them, would respectfully report to the General Committee appointed by the merchants of New York, and to the contributors to the fund placed at their disposal, that the total amount received to date is $40,779 08-100, as will appear by the statement of the Treasurer, Mr. Jonathan Sturges. That this sum of money was sent to the Treasurer by the contributors in prompt response to the simple announ...
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF MER
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Black Gotham
Narrates the story of the elite African American families who lived in New York City in the nineteenth century, describing their successes as businesspeople and professionals and the contributions they made to the culture of that time period.
The Grammar of Good Intentions
Susan M. Ryan explores antebellum Americans' preoccupation with the language and practice of benevolence. Drawing on a variety of cultural and literary texts, she traces how people working and writing within social reform movements--and their outspoken opponents--helped solidify racial and class ideologies that ultimately marginalized even the most "deserving" poor. "The links between race and the relations of benevolence occasioned much soul-searching among antebellum Americans," Ryan explains. "In a period of heated public debate over issues such as slavery, Indian removal, and non-Protestant immigration, the categories of blackness, Indianness, and a generic 'foreignness' came to signify,...
