The river flows on : Black resistance, culture, and identity formation in early America
Title:
The river flows on : Black resistance, culture, and identity formation in early America
Author:
Rucker, Walter C., 1970-
Personal Author:
Edition:
paperback edition.
Publication Information:
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2007, c2006.]
©2007, ©2006
Physical Description:
xii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
Fires of discontent, echoes of Africa : the 1712 New York City revolt -- "Only draw in your countrymen" : the 1741 New York City conspiracy revisited -- Dance, conjure, and flight : culture and resistance in colonial South Carolina -- "We will wade to our knees in blood" : blacksmiths and ritual spaces in Gabriel Prosser's conspiracy -- "I will gather all nations" : ethnic collaboration in Denmark Vesey's Charleston plot -- "I was ordained for some great purpose" : conjure, Christianity, and Nat Turner's revolt -- Folklore and the creation of an African American identity.
Subject Term:
Electronic Access:
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005010249.html
ISBN:
9780807133316
Format :
Book
