The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century

Building on the now outof-print archival and interpretive work of Howard Holman Bell, Philip S. Foner, and George E. Walker, as well as the many studies that have drawn on the antebellum and postbellum convention minutes, this volume advances arguments about nineteenth-century African American politics and the Colored Conventions themselves. In sum, The Colored Conventions Movement is a worthy addition to recent scholarship-such books as Martha S. Jones's Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (2018) and Kate Masur's Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction (2021)-that centers the roles that Black people played in pushing the United States to actualize its founding principles, by focusing on how they organized among and for themselves. Nicole Myers Turner NICOLE MYERS TURNER, assistant professor of religious studies at Yale University, is the author of Soul Liberty: The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Postemancipation Virginia (University of North Carolina Press, 2020).