No One Who Reads the History of Hayti Can Doubt the Capacity of Colored Men: Racial Formation and Atlantic Rehabilitation in New York City's Early Black Press, 1827-1841
Yingling · 2013 · Early American Studies 11(2), 314-348
Journal article
Two black newspapers in New York City, Freedom's Journal and the Colored American, carried out what Yingling identifies as one of the earliest sustained racial projects in the United States, across the years from 1827 to 1841.
Facing constant slander aimed at black Americans, the editors set about redefining who their readers were within the Black Atlantic, moving away from an idea of a shared African past that was losing its hold. Freedom's Journal put the Haitian Revolution to work as proof of resistance, of the abolitionist case, and of self-rule.
The Colored American, coming later, made different use of the same country. It held up the Republic of Haiti as an example of sound government, prosperity, and refinement, a portrait fitted to that community's own growing claims on citizenship, inclusion, and rights.
No One Who Reads the History of Hayti Can Doubt the Capacity of Colored Men: Racial Formation and Atlantic Rehabilitation in New York City's Early Black Press, 1827-1841. (2013). Early American Studies, 11(2), 314-348. https://www.proquest.com/docview/1346949319/abstract/DDFB95FE0CD94F31PQ/1
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