Water from the rock : black resistance in a revolutionary age / Sylvia R. Frey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frey, Sylvia R., 1935-2001, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--Southern States--History--18th century.

Enslaved persons.

African Americans--Southern States--History--18th century.

African Americans.

Social aspects.

Military participation--African American.

United States.

Southern States.

Southern States--History--1775-1865.

Southern States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social aspects.

Southern States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, African American.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social aspects.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, African American.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 376 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1991.

Summary:

The era of the American Revolution was one of violent and unpredictable social, economic, and political change, and the dislocations of the period were most severely felt in the South. Sylvia Frey contends that the military struggle there involved a triangle--two sets of white belligerents and approximately 400,000 slaves. She reveals the dialectical relationships between slave resistance and Britain's Southern Strategy and between slave resistance and the white independence movement among Southerners, and shows how how these relationships transformed religion, law, and the economy during the postwar years.

Contents:

Introduction

1 The prerevolutionary south: foundations of culture and community

2 Toward independence: the conflict over slavery in a revolutionary context

3 The struggle for freedom: British invasion and occupation of Georgia

4 The Triagonal War: British invasion and occupation of South Carolina

5 The ending of the War: tragedy and triumph at Yorktown

6 The coming of peace: British evacuation and African-American relocation

7 The aftermath of war: demographic and economic transformations

8 The Christian social order: reformulating the master's ideology

9 The African-American response: black culture within a white context

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691216225

0691216223

OCLC:

1227050258