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The Roots of African-American Identity: Memory and History in Free Antebellum Communities

The Roots of African-American Identity: Memory and History in Free Antebellum Communities

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19th Century United States HistoryBlack American StudiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0312128606
ISBN13: 9780312128609
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Oct 6 1997
Pages: 242
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.88 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
Spanning the eight decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War, Bethel focuses on the lives of African Americans living in the nominally free northern and western states. Examining race and the construction of a politicized racial identity, this book explores how a group of fundamentally marginalized people crafted a uniquely New World ethnic identity which informed popular African American historical consciousness. The vision of freedom and historical consciousness this population crafted shaped post-1865 African American participation in Reconstruction, formed the spiritual and ideological foundation for the modern Pan-African movement and provided the historical legacy for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

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