A Mind to Stay : : White Plantation, Black Homeland /

A Mind to Stay : : White Plantation, Black Homeland / / Sydney Nathans.

The exodus of millions of African Americans from the rural South is a central theme of black life and liberation in the twentieth century. A Mind to Stay offers a counterpoint to the narrative of the Great Migration. Sydney Nathans tells the rare story of people who moved from being enslaved to beco...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Nathans, Sydney,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]
©2017
Year of Publication:2018
Edition:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 33 halftones, 5 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Prologue Unexpected
  • Part One .Proving Ground
  • One.Spared
  • Two.“Emigrants”
  • Three.“A Place Perfectly Detested”
  • Four.Held Back
  • Five.Reversals
  • Part Two.A Foothold In Freedom
  • Six.Exile’S Return
  • Seven.“Against All Comers”
  • Eight.“If They Can Get The Land”
  • Part Three.Beyond A Living
  • Nine.“Hallelujah Times”
  • Ten. “A Game Rooster”
  • Eleven.Sanctuaries
  • Part Four.Heir Land
  • Twelve.“That Thirties Wreck”
  • Thirteen.New Foundations
  • Fourteen. “Unless It’S A Must”
  • Epilogue “A Heavy Load To Lift”
  • Appendix The People Of A Mind To Stay
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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