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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 Studies

ISBN10: 0312218362
ISBN13: 9780312218362
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 15 1999
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.23
Language: English
Spanning the eight decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War, The Roots of African-American Identity focuses on the lives of African Americans in the nominally free northern and western states. This book explores how a group of marginalized people crafted a uniquely New World ethnic identity that informed popular African American historical consciousness. Elizabeth Rauh Bethel examines the way in which that consciousness fueled collective efforts to claim and live a promised but undelivered democratic freedom, helping readers to understand how African Americans reformulated and perceived their collective past. Bethel also reveals how this vision of freedom and historical consciousness shaped African American participation in the 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. Comprehensive and engaging, The Roots of African-American Identity is an absorbing account of an often overlooked part of American history.

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