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Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780691216225
DOI
10.1515/9780691216225
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
42 MB (44532919 bytes)
Pages
376\390
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-25 16:50:14

Description

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.

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