Description
Book SynopsisIt is a confrontation, he suggests, that was enacted thousands of times across the slaveholding Americas as white men strained to suppress black culture and blacks resisted- determined to preserve their heritage and beliefs.
Trade ReviewA splendid effort to recover the past of the kind of people, inarticulate and usually undocumented as individuals, which is usually beyond recovery. It is also the presentation of an extremely moving experience: that of a people whose identity... rests on memories of an armed struggle against outsiders two or three centuries ago, which they are still prepared to resume. -- E. J. Hobsbawm New York Review of Books
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Prologue
Part I: Foreparents
Chapter 1. First-Time's Child
Part II: In the Wings
Chapter 2. The New Politics
Chapter 3. Soldiers of the Bloody Cross
Part III: Center-Stage
Chapter 4. The Whole Land Shook
Chapter 5. To be a Christian and a Man
Chapter 6. On to Bambey
Chapter 7. Ringer of Bells
Chapter 8. Chief-over-All
Epiloge: Alabi's Legacy
Notes and Commentary
References Cited
