Claiming Exodus : a cultural history of Afro-Atlantic identity, 1774-1903 /
Thomas, Rhondda Robinson.
Claiming Exodus : a cultural history of Afro-Atlantic identity, 1774-1903 / Rhondda Robinson Thomas. - Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2013. - xii, 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-190) and index.
Exodus and the politics of liberty in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, 1760-1800 -- Exodus as the blueprint for building free black communities in America and abroad, 1800-1840 -- Afro-Atlantic exodus: integration vs. emigration in the era of manifest destiny, 1840-1861 -- Exodus, The civil war, and reconstruction: from Egypt to the border of Canaan, an American journey, 1861-1877 -- African Americans in the nadir: American Egypt, American Canaan, 1877-1900 -- Afterword: The first Joshua generation-stranded on the border of Canaan, 1895-1903.
9781602585317 (hardback : alk. paper)
2012028965
Bible--In literature.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Exodus, The, in literature.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans--Race identity.
PS153.N5 / T475 2013
810.9/896073
Claiming Exodus : a cultural history of Afro-Atlantic identity, 1774-1903 / Rhondda Robinson Thomas. - Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2013. - xii, 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-190) and index.
Exodus and the politics of liberty in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, 1760-1800 -- Exodus as the blueprint for building free black communities in America and abroad, 1800-1840 -- Afro-Atlantic exodus: integration vs. emigration in the era of manifest destiny, 1840-1861 -- Exodus, The civil war, and reconstruction: from Egypt to the border of Canaan, an American journey, 1861-1877 -- African Americans in the nadir: American Egypt, American Canaan, 1877-1900 -- Afterword: The first Joshua generation-stranded on the border of Canaan, 1895-1903.
9781602585317 (hardback : alk. paper)
2012028965
Bible--In literature.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Exodus, The, in literature.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans--Race identity.
PS153.N5 / T475 2013
810.9/896073