{"title":"The New Era’s More Civil War: How Big a Tent?","authors":"K. Diffley","doi":"10.1353/afa.2022.0001","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:First issued on January 13, 1870, the New Era appeared in Washington, DC, as the Fifteenth Amendment was about to assure voting rights to Black men. At the height of Radical Reconstruction, J. Sella Martin and Frederick Douglass addressed their efforts to “the Colored People of the United States” and detailed the liberating days of the African American community’s greatest hopes, while reprinting two stories about the Civil War and its immediate aftermath. The article examines their sharp differences as the weekly cast the postwar nation hovering between founding promise and a new birth of freedom.","PeriodicalId":44779,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0001","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, AMERICAN","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract:First issued on January 13, 1870, the New Era appeared in Washington, DC, as the Fifteenth Amendment was about to assure voting rights to Black men. At the height of Radical Reconstruction, J. Sella Martin and Frederick Douglass addressed their efforts to “the Colored People of the United States” and detailed the liberating days of the African American community’s greatest hopes, while reprinting two stories about the Civil War and its immediate aftermath. The article examines their sharp differences as the weekly cast the postwar nation hovering between founding promise and a new birth of freedom.
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As the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association, the quarterly journal African American Review promotes a lively exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives on African American literature and culture. Between 1967 and 1976, the journal appeared under the title Negro American Literature Forum and for the next fifteen years was titled Black American Literature Forum. In 1992, African American Review changed its name for a third time and expanded its mission to include the study of a broader array of cultural formations.