Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age

Sylvia R. Frey

Published by Princeton University Press 1991

Water from the Rock

Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age

Sylvia R. Frey

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691216225

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The era of the American Revolution was one of violent and unpredictable social, economic, and political change, and the dislocations of the period were most severely felt in the South. Sylvia Frey contends that the military struggle there involved a triangle--two sets of white belligerents and approximately 400,000 slaves. She reveals the dialectical relationships between slave resistance and Britain's Southern Strategy and between slave resistance and the white independence movement among Southerners, and shows how how these relationships transformed religion, law, and the economy during the postwar years.

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"What were the feelings of the several hundred thousand blacks in the thirteen colonies at the time of the American Revolution? Some surprising answers emerge from this pioneering history."

"Frey's broad research, skillful synthesis, sensitivity, and insight fill her work with a subtle power . . . [and] demands reading by anyone seriously interested in blacks, American religion, the South, or the Revolutionary era."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
ONE. THE PREREVOLUTIONARY SOUTH: FOUNDATIONS OF CULTURE AND COMMUNITY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
TWO. TOWARD INDEPENDENCE: THE CONFLICT OVER SLAVERY IN A REVOLUTIONARY CONTEXT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
THREE. THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM: BRITISH INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF GEORGIA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
FOUR. THE TRIAGONAL WAR: BRITISH INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
FIVE. THE ENDING OF THE WAR: TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH AT YORKTOWN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
SIX. THE COMING OF PEACE: BRITISH EVACUATION AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN RELOCATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
SEVEN. THE AFTERMATH OF WAR: DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
EIGHT. THE CHRISTIAN SOCIAL ORDER: REFORMULATING THE MASTER'S IDEOLOGY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
NINE. THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN RESPONSE: BLACK CULTURE WITHIN A WHITE CONTEXT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284
CONCLUSION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	326
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369