The roots of African-American identity : memory and history in free antebellum communities / Elizabeth Rauh Bethel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bethel, Elizabeth Rauh.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Free African Americans--History.

Free African Americans.

African Americans--History--To 1863.

African Americans.

History.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans--Historiography.

Physical Description:

xiii, 242 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Roots of African American identity

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Contents:

Prologue: The Revolution Remembered: The Fifth of March, 1858 1

Part 1 Fashioning a Moral Community, 1775-1800

Chapter 1. "In the Bowels of a Free and Christian Country": Living in the Revolutionary Era 29

Chapter 2. "Sons and Daughters of Distress": A Theology of Liberation 53

Part 2 Environments of Memory, 1800-1835

Chapter 3. From Laws and Revolutions, Freedom Lieux 85

Chapter 4. Africa Envisioned, Africa Found 97

Chapter 5. Moral Community, Ethnic Identity, and Political Action 119

Part 3 History and the Politics of Memory, 1835-1860

Chapter 6. Haiti, Canada, and a Pan-African Vision 145

Chapter 7. Biography, Narrative, and Memory: The Construction of a Popular Historical Consciousness 167

Epilogue: Emancipation, Reconstruction, and Empire-Building 185.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0312128606

OCLC:

36201572