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The river flows on : Black resistance, culture, and identity formation in early America /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rucker, Walter C., 1970-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Folklore > Political aspects > United States > History.
African Americans > Rites and ceremonies.
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans > Social life and customs.
African Americans > History > To 1863.
Slaves > United States > Social conditions.
Government, Resistance to > United States > History.
Slave insurrections > United States.
United States > Race relations.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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.