There Is a River : The Black Struggle for Freedom in America

by Harding, Vincent

• ISBN13: 9780156890892
• ISBN10: 0156890895
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-01-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

From an unflinchingly black perspective, Harding writes of the struggle of heroic African americans to achieve freedom from slavery. Index; photographs.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
From the Shores of Africa	3	(21)
The Forerunners
American Bondage, American Freedom	24	(28)
Shaping the Struggle
Rebels, Resistants, and Outlyers	52	(23)
Building the River's Power
Symptoms of Liberty and Blackhead Signposts	75	(26)
David Walker and Nat Turner
Many Thousands Crossing Over	101	(16)
Two Decades of Struggle in the South (1830--1850)
Strange River in Canaan	117	(23)
The Paradoxical Search for Freedom in the North
Beyond the North Star	140	(14)
Testing the Great Tradition of Black Protest
A Ferment of Fugitives	154	(18)
The Confluence of Northern and Southern Struggle
Called to Go Forward	172	(23)
Protest, Emigration, and Radical Destiny
On Jordan's Stormy Banks	195	(24)
The Rip Tide of Black Struggle (1855--1860)
The Blood-Red Ironies of God	219	(23)
Civil War, Black Freedom, and the Dialectics of Transformation
``We Are Coming Up''	242	(16)
The Harsh and Uncertain Path Toward a New Nation
Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last	258	(19)
Claiming ``The Land of the Free''
The Challenge of the Children	277	(21)
Creating a New Vision of America
Black Hope, Black Soldiers, and Black Codes	298	(20)
The Clashing Versions of Justice
The Struggle Ends, the Struggle Begins	318	(15)
There Is a River
Acknowledgments	333	(6)
Notes	339	(46)
Bibliography	385	(18)
Index	403