{"id":629,"date":"2026-03-26T15:33:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/?p=629"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:36:22","slug":"james-w-c-pennington-biographical-and-critical-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"James W.C. Pennington – Biographical and Critical Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

James W. C. Pennington —\u00a0Biographical and Critical Sources<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Close, Stacey (2014<\/span>).\u00a0\u201c<\/span>Rev. James W. C. Pennington: A National and Local Voice for Freedom\u201d<\/span>\u00a0in Normen, Elizabeth J.; Harris, Katherine J.; Close, Stacey K.; Mitchell, Wm. Frank; White, Olivia (eds.),\u202f<\/span>African American Connecticut Explored<\/span><\/i>.\u202fMiddletown, Connecticut:\u00a0Wesleyan University Press, 2014.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Stievermann, Jan;<\/span>\u202f<\/span>Smith, Caitlin B.;\u202fGlaude,\u00a0Eddie S\u00a0(eds.),<\/span>\u202f\u202f<\/span>James\u00a0W.C. Pennington: Essays Toward\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Rediscovering a Great African American Intellectual and Reformer<\/span><\/i>. Oxford:\u00a0Oxford\u00a0University Press, 2025<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas, Herman E.\u00a0<\/span>James W.C. Pennington: African American Churchman and Abolitionist<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0Abingdon, Oxfordshire:\u00a0Routledge, 1995<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Webber, Christopher L.\u00a0<\/span>American to the Backbone: The Life of James W. C. Pennington, the Fugitive Slave Who Became One of the First Black Abolitionists.\u00a0<\/span><\/i>New York: Pegasus Books, 2011<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Works<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Stievermann, Jan;<\/span>\u202f<\/span>Smith, Caitlin B.;\u202fGlaude, Eddie S (eds.),\u00a0<\/span>The Fugitive\u00a0Blacksmith\u00a0and Other Essential Writings by James W. C. Pennington.<\/span><\/i>\u00a0Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Links\u00a0to Pennington\u2019s reproduced writings\u00a0are\u00a0at\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/www.logcollegepress.com\/james-william-charles-pennington-18071870<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0Along\u00a0with\u00a0<\/span>The Fugitive Blacksmith\u00a0<\/span><\/i>and\u00a0many others,\u00a0these include:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

An Address Delivered at Newark, N.J. at the First Anniversary of West India Emancipation (1839)<\/span><\/b>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Introduction to Ann Plato’s\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and Poetry<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0(1841)<\/span><\/b>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A Text Book of the Origin and History of the Colored People (1841)<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

God No Respecter of Persons (1842)<\/span><\/b>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Speech Regarding the Intent of the African Colonization Society (1849)<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Letter to Stowe in\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Key to Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0(1852)<\/span><\/b>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Position and Duties of the Colored People (1864)<\/span><\/b>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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James W. C. Pennington —\u00a0Biographical and Critical Sources\u00a0 Close, Stacey (2014).\u00a0\u201cRev. James W. C. Pennington: A National and Local Voice for Freedom\u201d\u00a0in Normen, Elizabeth J.; Harris, Katherine J.; Close, Stacey K.; Mitchell, Wm. Frank; White, Olivia (eds.),\u202fAfrican American Connecticut Explored.\u202fMiddletown, Connecticut:\u00a0Wesleyan University Press, 2014.\u00a0 Stievermann, Jan;\u202fSmith, Caitlin B.;\u202fGlaude,\u00a0Eddie S\u00a0(eds.),\u202f\u202fJames\u00a0W.C. Pennington: Essays Toward\u00a0Rediscovering a Great African … Continue reading James W.C. Pennington – Biographical and Critical Sources<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james-w-c-pennington"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}