Steven Hahn
From AwardAnnals
Information about the author.
Works
- 1 work
- Show titles only
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
Steven Hahn
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…
