The River Flows on : : Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America
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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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SERIES
Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world.
PUBLISHED
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2006.
Year Published: 2006
Description: 288 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0807131091 (cloth : alk. paper) :
SUBJECTS
Slave insurrections.
Government, Resistance to -- History.
Enslaved people -- Social conditions.
African Americans -- History -- To 1863.
African Americans -- Social life and customs.
African Americans -- Ethnic identity.
African Americans -- Rites and ceremonies.
Folklore -- History.
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States -- Race relations.