Nation under Our Feet Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration

Name: Nation under Our Feet Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
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ISBN: 9780674017658

ISBN-10: 067401765X

ISBN-13: 9780674017658

Edition: 2003

Authors: Steven Hahn

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This is the story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people - an embryonic black nation. Hahn demonstrates that rural African-Americans were central political actors in the events of disunion, emancipation and nation building.

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 624
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.870
Language: English

Steven Hahn is Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor in American History at University of Pennsylvania.



Prologue: Looking Out from Slavery



"The Jacobins of the Country"



Of Chains and Threads



"The Choked Voice of a Race at Last Unloosed"



Of Rumors and Revelations



To Build a New Jerusalem



Reconstructing the Body Politic



"A Society Turned Bottomside Up"



Of Paramilitary Politics



The Unvanquished



The Education of Henry Adams



Of Ballots and Biracialism



The Valley and the Shadows


Epilogue: "Up, You Mighty Race"



Black Leaders Data Set


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index