Water from the rock Black resistance in a revolutionary age / Sylvia R. Frey ; with a new foreword by Manisha Sinha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frey, Sylvia R., 1935-2021, author.

Contributor:

Sinha, Manisha, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Southern States--History--To 1863.

African Americans.

Slavery--Southern States--History--18th century.

Slavery.

African American soldiers.

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

United States.

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

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

Southern States.

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

Southern States--History--1775-1865.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"A multifaceted history of Black resistance during the War of Independence The American Revolution brought about violent and unpredictable social changes throughout the new nation, particularly in the South. Sylvia Frey reveals how slave resistance gave rise to a Black liberation movement that was central to the revolutionary struggle in the southern colonies, and how Black resistance persisted after the war as a struggle for cultural power that manifested itself in the establishment of separate Black churches with distinctive ritual patterns and moral values. She examines how white Southerners responded to Black resistance amid their own fight for independence from the British, and how they reacted to new movements by African Americans in the postwar period. With an incisive foreword by Manisha Sinha, Water from the Rock shows how the upheavals of war created opportunities for a quiet revolution that laid the foundations for the modern civil rights movement in America"-- De Gruyter Brill.

Contents:

The prerevolutionary South : foundations of culture and community

Toward independence : the conflict over slavery in a revolutionary context

The struggle for freedom : British invasion and occupation of Georgia

The triagonal war : British invasion and occupation of South Carolina

The ending of the war : tragedy and triumph at Yorktown

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

The aftermath of war : demographic and economic transformations

The Christian social order : reformulating the master's ideology

The African-American response : Black culture within a white context.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed December 22, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Frey, Sylvia R., 1935-2021. Water from the rock

ISBN:

9780691272962

0691272964

OCLC:

1535106533

Publisher Number:

CIPO000311351

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license