Claiming Exodus
Subtitle: a cultural history of Afro-Atlantic identity, 1774-1903
By: Rhondda Robinson Thomas
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Waco, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9781602585317
Subjects: African Americans in literature; Bible; Race identity; History and criticism; American literature; Exodus, The, in literature; African American authors; In literature; African Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Exodus and the politics of liberty in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, 1760-1800; title: Exodus as the blueprint for building free black communities in America and abroad, 1800-1840; title: Afro-Atlantic exodus: integration vs. emigration in the era of manifest destiny, 1840-1861; title: Exodus, The civil war, and reconstruction: from Egypt to the border of Canaan, an American journey, 1861-1877; title: African Americans in the nadir: American Egypt, American Canaan, 1877-1900; title: Afterword: The first Joshua generation-stranded on the border of Canaan, 1895-1903.