The river flows on
Subtitle: Black resistance, culture, and identity formation in early America
By: Walter C. Rucker.
Series: Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Slave insurrections -- United States; Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History; Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions; African Americans -- History -- To 1863; African Americans -- Social life and customs; African Americans -- Ethnic identity; African Americans -- Rites and ceremonies; Folklore -- Political aspects -- United States -- History; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; United States -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fires of discontent, echoes of Africa : the 1712 New York City revolt; title: "Only draw in your countrymen" : the 1741 New York City conspiracy revisited; title: Dance, conjure, and flight : culture and resistance in colonial South Carolina; title: "We will wade to our knees in blood" : blacksmiths and ritual spaces in Gabriel Prosser's conspiracy; title: "I will gather all nations" : ethnic collaboration in Denmark Vesey's Charleston plot; title: "I was ordained for some great purpose" : conjure, Christianity, and Nat Turner's revolt; title: Folklore and the creation of an African American identity.