The River Flows On : Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America /

"The River Flows On is broad study of slave resistance in America, spanning the colonial and antebellum eras in both the North and South and covering all forms of recalcitrance, from major revolts and rebellions to everyday acts of disobedience. Walter C. Rucker analyzes American slave resistan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rucker, Walter C., 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Soziale Situation
Widerstand
Sklaverei
Slaves > Social conditions.
Slave insurrections.
Race relations.
Government, Resistance to.
Folklore > Political aspects.
African Americans > Social life and customs.
African Americans > Rites and ceremonies.
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Noirs americains > Identite ethnique.
Noirs americains > Moeurs et coutumes.
Noirs americains > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1863.
Esclaves > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Resistance au gouvernement > États-Unis > Histoire.
Revoltes d'esclaves > États-Unis.
Folklore > Political aspects > United States > History.
African Americans > History > To 1863.
Slaves > United States > Social conditions.
Government, Resistance to > United States > History.
Slave insurrections > United States.
Schwarze.
USA.
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
États-Unis > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Periode coloniale)
United States > Race relations.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
History
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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