New York's Black Regiments During the Civil War

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

History

Seraile, William

Africa

Routledge

William Seraile uncovers the history of the colored orphan asylum, founded in New York City in 1836 as the nation’s first orphanage for African American children. It is a remarkable institution that is still in the forefront aiding children. Although no longer an orphanage, in its current incarnation as Harlem-Dowling West Side Center for Children and Family Services it maintains the principles of the women who organized it nearly 200 years ago.
The agency weathered three wars, two major financial panics, a devastating fire during the 1863 Draft Riots, several epidemics, waves of racial prejudice, and severe financial difficulties to care for orphaned, neglected, and delinquent children. Eventually financial support would come from some of New York’s finest families, including the Jays, Murrays, Roosevelts, Macys, and Astors.
While the white female managers and their male advisers were dedicated to uplifting these black children, the evangelical, mainly Quaker founding managers also exhibited the extreme paternalistic views endemic at the time, accepting the advice or support of the African American community only grudgingly. It was frank criticism in 1913 from W. E. B. Du Bois that highlighted the conflict between the orphanage and the community it served, and it wasn’t until 1939 that it hired the first black trustee.
More than 15,000 children were raised in the orphanage, and throughout its history letters and visits have revealed that hundreds if not thousands of “old boys and girls” looked back with admiration and respect at the home that nurtured them throughout their formative years.
Weaving together African American history with a unique history of New York City, this is not only a painstaking study of a previously unsung institution of black history but a unique window onto complex racial dynamics during a period when many failed to recognize equality among all citizens as a worthy purpose.

Angels of Mercy: White Women and the History of New York's Colored Orphan Asylum (Empire State Editions)

Empire State Editions

William Seraile uncovers the history of the colored orphan asylum, founded in New York City in 1836 as the nation’s first orphanage for African American children. It is a remarkable institution that is still in the forefront aiding children. Although no longer an orphanage, in its current incarnation as Harlem-Dowling West Side Center for Children and Family Services it maintains the principles of the women who organized it nearly 200 years ago.The agency weathered three wars, two major financial panics, a devastating fire during the 1863 Draft Riots, several epidemics, waves of racial prejudice, and severe financial difficulties to care for orphaned, neglected, and delinquent children. Eventually financial support would come from some of New York’s finest families, including the Jays, Murrays, Roosevelts, Macys, and Astors.While the white female managers and their male advisers were dedicated to uplifting these black children, the evangelical, mainly Quaker founding managers also exhibited the extreme paternalistic views endemic at the time, accepting the advice or support of the African American community only grudgingly. It was frank criticism in 1913 from W. E. B. Du Bois that highlighted the conflict between the orphanage and the community it served, and it wasn’t until 1939 that it hired the first black trustee.More than 15,000 children were raised in the orphanage, and throughout its history letters and visits have revealed that hundreds if not thousands of “old boys and girls” looked back with admiration and respect at the home that nurtured them throughout their formative years.Weaving together African American history with a unique history of New York City, this is not only a painstaking study of a previously unsung institution of black history but a unique window onto complex racial dynamics during a period when many failed to recognize equality among all citizens as a worthy purpose.

Voice of Dissent: Theophilus Gould Steward (1843-1924) and Black America

Religion & Spirituality

Carlson Pub

Fire in His Heart Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner and the A.M.E. Church William Seraile "This fine, informative work greatly augments our knowledge of the life of black clergy and periodical editors in the late nineteenth century, by providing us with an insightful biography of Benjamin Tucker Tanner, a man who was one of the greatest in both categories. William Seraile's careful analysis of Tanner's integrationist views regarding race in America can help out present-day Americans who are concerned about overcoming divisions that still persist in our multi-ethnic democratic society."—Stephen W. Angell, Florida A&amp;M University "Professor Seraile has written a very well-researched, well-organized biography of Benjamin Tucker Tanner, one of the major leaders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, who made significant intellectual and pastoral contributions in his roles as minister, editor, and bishop. . . . Seraile highlights the life and work of a very important figure in African American, American, and Methodist religious history."—Sandy Dwayne Martin, University of Georgia Benjamin Tucker Tanner (1835–1923) distinguished himself in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as one of the foremost clergymen and editors in the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church. With depth and insight, he wrote about major events he had witnessed—the Civil War, Reconstruction, the rise of Jim Crow, and the Progressive Era, among them—and, as part of the A.M.E. Church's educated elite, he helped extend the denomination's reach into the postbellum South as well as into Canada, the Caribbean, and Africa. In Fire in His Heart, William Seraile offers the first full biography of Tanner. As Seraile shows, the Pittsburgh-born churchman struggled in his early years with his own lack of religious zeal. This concern took Tanner from pulpit preaching in 1868 to the editor's desk where, for sixteen years, he edited the Christian Recorder, official organ of the A.M.E. Church, which he molded into a major African American newspaper. He subsequently became founding editor of the AME Church Review, and in 1888 he was made a bishop, serving districts based in Philadelphia, Kansas City, Jacksonville, and Nashville. At about the time he became a bishop, Tanner found the spiritual fire that had been absent in his youth—a zeal that was reflected in both poetry and essays. As an editor and bishop, Tanner demonstrated an ardent commitment to human rights and a firm belief in the inclusion of all people into American society. Proud of his African heritage, he wrote books addressing the presence of the African in the Bible and thus was a pioneer in what is now called the Afrocentric school of theology. Even so, he considered himself first and foremost an American, predicting that the United States would eventually become a nation where race and color were unimportant. In its recounting and analysis of Tanner's life, writings, and intellectual contributions, Fire in His Heart underscores the importance of a key figure in the history of the African American church. The Author: William Seraile is a professor in the Department of Black Studies at Lehman College of the City University of New York. He is the author of Voice of Dissent: Theophilus Gould Steward and Black America.

Fire In His Heart: Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Univ Tennessee Press

“Bruce Grit will prove extremely valuable to scholars who do not have access to the Schomburg’s Bruce collection or the time necessary for the daunting task of sifting through its contents.” —African American Review John Edward Bruce (1856–1924) witnessed the dying days of American slavery, the turbulence of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the rise of Jim Crow, and the development of American imperialism. As a journalist, historian, and bibliophile, he was a major figure in African American history and politics during his lifetime. In this first intellectual biography of Bruce—a prolific writer and correspondent who published most frequently under the name Bruce Grit—William Seraile explores Bruce’s tireless advocacy on behalf of African peoples everywhere, particularly in the United States. William Seraile traces Bruce’s shifting strategies and tactics and his alliances with famous contemporaries such as Arthur A. Schomburg, Carter G. Woodson, Booker T. Washington, and Marcus Garvey. He argues that underlying all of Bruce’s work was what would become his greatest legacy: his promotion of history and culture of African people in the diaspora as valuable fields of study. William Seraile is professor emeritus of Lehman College. He is the author of Voice of Dissent: Theophilus Gould Steward and Black America, Fire in His Heart: Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner and the A.M.E. Church, and New York’s Black Regiments During the Civil War.

Bruce Grit: The Black Nationalist Writings Of

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New York's Black Regiments During the Civil War

Angels of Mercy: White Women and the History of New York's Colored Orphan Asylum (Empire State Editions)

Angels of Mercy: White Women and the History of New York's Colored Orphan Asylum (Empire State Editions)

Voice of Dissent: Theophilus Gould Steward (1843-1924) and Black America

New York's Black Regiments During the Civil War

Fire In His Heart: Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner

Bruce Grit: The Black Nationalist Writings Of