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Author Thomas, Rhondda Robinson.

Title Claiming Exodus [electronic resource] : a cultural history of Afro-Atlantic identity, 1774-1903 / Rhondda Robinson Thomas.

Imprint Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2013.

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Description xii, 199 p. : ill., ports.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Exodus and the politics of liberty in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, 1760-1800 -- Exodus as the blueprint for building free black communities in America and abroad, 1800-1840 -- Afro-Atlantic exodus: integration vs. emigration in the era of manifest destiny, 1840-1861 -- Exodus, The civil war, and reconstruction: from Egypt to the border of Canaan, an American journey, 1861-1877 -- African Americans in the nadir: American Egypt, American Canaan, 1877-1900 -- Afterword: The first Joshua generation-stranded on the border of Canaan, 1895-1903.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Bible -- In literature.
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
Exodus, The, in literature.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781602585317 (hardback alk. paper)
9781602585331 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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