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Water from the rock : Black resistance in a revolutionary age /

The era of the American Revolution was one of violent and unpredictable social, economic, and political change, and the dislocations of the period were most severely felt in the South. Sylvia Frey contends that the military struggle there involved a triangle--two sets of white belligerents and appro...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Frey, Sylvia R., 1935-2021
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1991.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • The prerevolutionary south: foundations of culture and community
  • Toward independence: the conflict over slavery in a revolutionary context
  • The struggle for freedom: British invasion and occupation of South Carolina
  • The ending of the war: tragedy and triumph at Yorktown
  • The coming of peace: British evacuation and African-American relocation
  • The aftermath of war: demographic and economic transformations
  • The Christian social order: reformulating the master's ideology
  • The African-American response: Black culture within a white context
  • Conclusion.