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9780674017658

A Nation Under Our Feet

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  • ISBN13:

    9780674017658

  • ISBN10:

    067401765X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-04-30
  • Publisher: Belknap Pr

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Summary

This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people--an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building. At the same time, Hahn asks us to think in more expansive ways about the nature and boundaries of politics and political practice. Emphasizing the importance of kinship, labor, and networks of communication, A Nation under Our Feet explores the political relations and sensibilities that developed under slavery and shows how they set the stage for grassroots mobilization. Hahn introduces us to local leaders, and shows how political communities were built, defended, and rebuilt. He also identifies the quest for self-governance as an essential goal of black politics across the rural South, from contests for local power during Reconstruction, to emigrationism, biracial electoral alliances, social separatism, and, eventually, migration. Hahn suggests that Garveyism and other popular forms of black nationalism absorbed and elaborated these earlier struggles, thus linking the first generation of migrants to the urban North with those who remained in the South. He offers a new framework--looking out from slavery--to understand twentieth-century forms of black political consciousness as well as emerging battles for civil rights. It is a powerful story, told here for the first time, and one that presents both an inspiring and a troubling perspective on American democracy.

Author Biography

Steven Hahn is the Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor in American History at the University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Looking Out from Slavery 1(12)
PART I "The Jacobins of the Country"
1 Of Chains and Threads
13(49)
2 "The Choked Voice of a Race at Last Unloosed"
62(54)
3 Of Rumors and Revelations
116(47)
PART II To Build a New Jerusalem
4 Reconstructing the Body Politic
163(53)
5 "A Society Turned Bottomside Up"
216(49)
6 Of Paramilitary Politics
265(52)
PART III The Unvanquished
7 The Education of Henry Adams
317(47)
8 Of Ballots and Biracialism
364(48)
9 The Valley and the Shadows
412(53)
Epilogue: "Up, You Mighty Race" 465(14)
Appendix: Black Leaders Data Set 479(2)
Notes 481(114)
Acknowledgments 595(4)
Index 599

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