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The river flows on : Black resistance, culture, and identity formation in early America
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- Creator
- Walter C. Rucker
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Paperback edition
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780807133316, 0807133310
- OCLC
- ocn212415579
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-279) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Slave rebellions -- United States.
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History.
- Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions.
- African Americans -- History -- To 1863.
- African Americans -- Social life and customs.
- African Americans -- Race identity.
- African Americans -- Rites and ceremonies.
- Folklore -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
- United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- United States -- Race relations.