A nation under our feet : Black political struggles in the rural South, from slavery to the great migration /
Hahn, Steven, 1951-
A nation under our feet : Black political struggles in the rural South, from slavery to the great migration / Steven Hahn. - First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 2005. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003. - viii, 16 pages of plates, 610 pages : illustrations. ; 23 cm.
Has highlighting and underlinging throught text.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-593) and index.
Prologue: Looking out from slavery -- Part I "The Jacobins of the country" -- 1 Of chains and threads -- 2 "The choked voice of a race at last unloosed" -- 3 Of rumors and revelations Part II To build a new Jerusalem -- 4 Reconstructing the body politic -- 5 "A society turned bottomside up" -- 6 Of paramilitary politics Part III The unvanquished -- 7 The education of Henry Adams -- 8 Of ballots and biracialism -- 9 The valley and the shadows -- Epilogue: "Up, you mighty race."
"This Pulitzer Prize-winning book is the epic story of how African Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people -- an embryonic black nation." -- from the back cover. "Steven Hahn’s A Nation Under Our Feet is the most comprehensive account yet of black politics in the rural South before, during and after the Civil War. Whereas most previous work has focused either on the slave experience or on post-Emancipation struggles, Hahn’s book encompasses both and shows the continuities between how blacks fought for self-determination in the two periods.... Based on prodigious research in primary sources, A Nation Under Our Feet is one of the most important works in American social history to appear in recent years.... This book [is] a major achievement and a landmark in African-American history. " -- George M. Frederickson in The Nation, from the back cover. "Hahn argues, in this ambitious and fascinating book, that the associations of slaves -- centered on kinship, work, and religion -- were far more intricate, enduring and politicized than has been realized ... One of the most striking theses here is that black rural laborers, rather than urban, educated freedom leaders, radicalized Reconstruction." -- The New Yorker, from the back cover.
Bancroft Prize, 2004 Merle Curti Prize in Social History, Organization of American Historians, 2004 Pulitzer Prize in History, 2004
0674011694 067401765x
2003045326
African Americans--Politics and government--Southern States--19th century.
African Americans--Politics and government--Southern States--20th century.
African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964.
Southern States--Politics and government--1865-1950.
Southern States--Race relations.
Southern States--Rural conditions.
E 185 .2 / . H15 2003
975/.0049607301734
A nation under our feet : Black political struggles in the rural South, from slavery to the great migration / Steven Hahn. - First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 2005. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003. - viii, 16 pages of plates, 610 pages : illustrations. ; 23 cm.
Has highlighting and underlinging throught text.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-593) and index.
Prologue: Looking out from slavery -- Part I "The Jacobins of the country" -- 1 Of chains and threads -- 2 "The choked voice of a race at last unloosed" -- 3 Of rumors and revelations Part II To build a new Jerusalem -- 4 Reconstructing the body politic -- 5 "A society turned bottomside up" -- 6 Of paramilitary politics Part III The unvanquished -- 7 The education of Henry Adams -- 8 Of ballots and biracialism -- 9 The valley and the shadows -- Epilogue: "Up, you mighty race."
"This Pulitzer Prize-winning book is the epic story of how African Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people -- an embryonic black nation." -- from the back cover. "Steven Hahn’s A Nation Under Our Feet is the most comprehensive account yet of black politics in the rural South before, during and after the Civil War. Whereas most previous work has focused either on the slave experience or on post-Emancipation struggles, Hahn’s book encompasses both and shows the continuities between how blacks fought for self-determination in the two periods.... Based on prodigious research in primary sources, A Nation Under Our Feet is one of the most important works in American social history to appear in recent years.... This book [is] a major achievement and a landmark in African-American history. " -- George M. Frederickson in The Nation, from the back cover. "Hahn argues, in this ambitious and fascinating book, that the associations of slaves -- centered on kinship, work, and religion -- were far more intricate, enduring and politicized than has been realized ... One of the most striking theses here is that black rural laborers, rather than urban, educated freedom leaders, radicalized Reconstruction." -- The New Yorker, from the back cover.
Bancroft Prize, 2004 Merle Curti Prize in Social History, Organization of American Historians, 2004 Pulitzer Prize in History, 2004
0674011694 067401765x
2003045326
African Americans--Politics and government--Southern States--19th century.
African Americans--Politics and government--Southern States--20th century.
African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964.
Southern States--Politics and government--1865-1950.
Southern States--Race relations.
Southern States--Rural conditions.
E 185 .2 / . H15 2003
975/.0049607301734