Setting Down the Sacred Past : : African-American Race Histories / / Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

As early as the 1780s, African Americans told stories that enabled them to survive and even thrive in the midst of unspeakable assault. Tracing previously unexplored narratives from the late eighteenth century to the 1920s, Laurie Maffly-Kipp brings to light an extraordinary trove of sweeping race h...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Wonders of the Ancient Past
• 2 The Children of Gilead
• 3 The Serpentine Trail
• 4 Exodus and Ethiopia
• 5 The Negro Race History
• 6 “The Grand Traditions of Our Race”
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index