Water from the Rock
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Water from the Rock

Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age

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eBook - ePub

Water from the Rock

Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword to the 2025 Edition
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. One: The Prerevolutionary South: Foundations of Culture and Community
  10. Two: Toward Independence: The Conflict over Slavery in a Revolutionary Context
  11. Three: The Struggle for Freedom: British Invasion and Occupation of Georgia
  12. Four: The Triagonal War: British Invasion and Occupation of South Carolina
  13. Five: The Ending of the War: Tragedy and Triumph at Yorktown
  14. Six: The Coming of Peace: British Evacuation and African-American Relocation
  15. Seven: The Aftermath of War: Demographic and Economic Transformations
  16. Eight: The Christian Social Order: Reformulating the Master’s Ideology
  17. Nine: The African-American Response: Black Culture within a White Context
  18. Conclusion
  19. Selected Bibliography
  20. Index