The Ethiopian Manifesto, Issued in Defence of the Black Man’s Rights in the Scale of Universal Freedom, was a pamphlet issued in New York by Robert Alexander Young early in 1829, only months before David Walker's much more influential Appeal. Little is known about the author, who was an obscure Black New Yorker who likely served as a popular preacher among the working class.[1]

In it the author envisioned the coming of a Black messiah. It contains one of the earliest extent calls for the reassembling of the African "race", of their need to become a people, a nation in themselves. He makes no distinction between African people throughout the world; for him, they are all African, regardless of their place of birth. Pan-negroism (or Pan-Africanism) was a first principle of his brand of nationalism.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Rael, Patrick (Spring 2000). "Black Theodicy:African Americans and Nationalism in the Antebellum North". The North Star. A Journal of African American Religious History. 3 (2).
  2. ↑ Stuckey, Sterling (1972). The Ideological Origins of Black Nationalism. Boston: Beacon Press. p. 8. ISBN 0807054283.
  3. ↑ Andersen, Nicholas (2010), Rerouting Robert Alexander Young's Ethiopian Manifesto, archived from the original on January 8, 2024
  4. ↑ Hinks, Peter P. (1997). To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press. p. 180.

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