There Is a River : The Black Struggle for Freedom in America,9780156890892

There Is a River : The Black Struggle for Freedom in America

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9780156890892
ISBN10: 0156890895
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-01-01
Publisher(s): Lightning Source Inc
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Summary

From an unflinchingly black perspective, Harding writes of the struggle of heroic African americans to achieve freedom from slavery. Index; photographs.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi
From the Shores of Africa
3(21)
The Forerunners
American Bondage, American Freedom
24(28)
Shaping the Struggle
Rebels, Resistants, and Outlyers
52(23)
Building the River's Power
Symptoms of Liberty and Blackhead Signposts
75(26)
David Walker and Nat Turner
Many Thousands Crossing Over
101(16)
Two Decades of Struggle in the South (1830--1850)
Strange River in Canaan
117(23)
The Paradoxical Search for Freedom in the North
Beyond the North Star
140(14)
Testing the Great Tradition of Black Protest
A Ferment of Fugitives
154(18)
The Confluence of Northern and Southern Struggle
Called to Go Forward
172(23)
Protest, Emigration, and Radical Destiny
On Jordan's Stormy Banks
195(24)
The Rip Tide of Black Struggle (1855--1860)
The Blood-Red Ironies of God
219(23)
Civil War, Black Freedom, and the Dialectics of Transformation
``We Are Coming Up''
242(16)
The Harsh and Uncertain Path Toward a New Nation
Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last
258(19)
Claiming ``The Land of the Free''
The Challenge of the Children
277(21)
Creating a New Vision of America
Black Hope, Black Soldiers, and Black Codes
298(20)
The Clashing Versions of Justice
The Struggle Ends, the Struggle Begins
318(15)
There Is a River
Acknowledgments 333(6)
Notes 339(46)
Bibliography 385(18)
Index 403

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