A nation under our feet : Black political struggles in the rural South from slavery to the great mig...
A nation under our feet : Black political struggles in the rural South from slavery to the great mig...
A nation under our feet : Black political struggles in the rural South from slavery to the great migration / Steven Hahn.
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2003.
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N975.00496/7
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English
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610 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Prologue: Looking Out from Slavery -- Pt. I. "The Jacobins of the Country" -- 1. Of Chains and Threads -- 2. "The Choked Voice of a Race at Last Unloosed" -- 3. Of Rumors and Revelations -- Pt. II. To Build a New Jerusalem -- 4. Reconstructing the Body Politic -- 5. "A Society Turned Bottomside Up"...
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2003.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
c2003.
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Summary
"This is the epic story of how African Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people - an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building. At the same time, Hahn asks us to t...
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A nation under our feet : Black political struggles in the rural South from slavery to the great migration / Steven Hahn.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N975.00496/7
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74VKw25vrjx3
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0674011694 (hbk. alk. paper)
9780674011694
0674011694
9780674011694 (alk. paper)
0674011694 (alk. paper)
9780674011694 (hbk. alk. paper)
DDC
975.0049607301734
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991018213829702626
