- Description
- viii, [16] pages of plates, 610 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This is the epic story of how African Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people - an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building. At the same time, Hahn asks us to think in more expansive ways about the nature and boundaries of politics and political practice." "A Nation under Our Feet explores the political relations and sensibilities that developed under slavery and shows how they set the stage for grassroots mobilization."--Jacket.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-593) and index.
- Awards (note)
- Pulitzer Prize, History, 2004.
- Contents
- Looking out from slavery -- "The Jacobins of the country" -- Of chains and threads -- "The choked voice of a race at last unloosed" -- Of rumors and revelations -- To build a new Jerusalem -- Reconstructing the body politic -- "A society turned bottomside up" -- Of paramilitary politics -- The unvanquished -- The education of Henry Adams -- Of ballots and biracialism -- The valley and the shadows -- "Up, you mighty race."
- ISBN
- 0674011694
- 9780674011694
- 067401765X
- 9780674017658
- OCLC
- 58053232
- Author
Hahn, Steven, 1951-
- Title
A nation under our feet : black political struggles in the rural South from slavery to the great migration / Steven Hahn.
- Edition
1st Harvard University Press paperback ed.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-593) and index.
- Awards
Pulitzer Prize, History, 2004.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
To 1999