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.
• African Americans--History--To 1863.
• African Americans.
• History.
• African Americans--Race identity.
• African Americans--Historiography.
• Free African Americans.

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