Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age
Black readiness to rebel changed the context of Southern life in the American Revolution and turned the war in the South into a war about slavery, Frey shows. Tracking the directions and dynamics of the change, she follows the currents of a persistent black liberation movement that proved central to the Revolutionary struggle in the South and pivotal for the slave system and the larger society from the 1760s to the 1800s. Frey emphasizes African American initiatives and responses that fostered what she sees as a dual transformation in law and religion, giving shape to Southern evangelical Christianity and the hegemony of the slaveholding class. Frey's broad research, skillful syn thesis, sensitivity, and insight fill her work with a subtle power that demands reading by anyone seriously interested in blacks, American religion, the South, or the Revolutionary era. Highly recommended . -- Thomas J. Davis, Univ. at Buffalo,Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.