Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America
- ISBN-10
- 0199931674
- ISBN-13
- 9780199931675
- Series
- Slave Culture
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 485
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Sterling Stuckey
Description
An updated edition of the highly acclaimed contribution to African-American scholarship, Slave Culture considers how various African peoples interacted on the plantations of the South to achieve a common culture, tracing of the roots of black nationalist feelings in America over several centuries.
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- 2013-09-25
- 496 pages
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- 1987
- 425 pages
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- 1987
- 425 pages
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- 1987-04-23
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