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| Book: | A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration |
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| Author: | Steven Hahn |
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| Publisher: | Belknap Press |
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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.
