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

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

Rucker, Walter C.

Paperback

Series: Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World

Black American StudiesColonial Period (1600-1775)General Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0807133310
ISBN13: 9780807133316
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Jan 1 2008
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The River Flows On offers an impressively broad examination 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 resistance with a keen understanding of its African influences, tracing the emergence of an African American identity and culture. Rucker points to the shared cultural heritage that facilitated collective action among both African- and American-born slaves, such as the ubiquitous belief in conjure and spiritual forces, the importance of martial dance and the drum, and ideas about the afterlife and transmigration.

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