TY - BOOK AU - Rucker,Walter C. TI - The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America T2 - eBooks on Demand SN - 9780807148877 AV - E447 .R83 2006 U1 - 306.3/62/0973306.3620973 PY - 2006/// CY - Baton Rouge PB - LSU Press KW - African Americans -- History -- To 1863 KW - African Americans -- Race identity KW - African Americans -- Rites and ceremonies KW - African Americans -- Social life and customs KW - Folklore -- Political aspects -- United States -- History KW - Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History KW - Slave insurrections -- United States KW - Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions KW - United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 KW - United States -- Race relations KW - Electronic books N1 - COVER; CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction; PART ONE: African Resistance in Colonial America; 1 Fires of Discontent, Echoes of Africa: The 1712 New York City Revolt; 2 "Only Draw in Your Countrymen": The 1741 New York City Conspiracy Revisited; 3 Dance, Conjure, and Flight: Culture and Resistance in Colonial South Carolina; PART TWO: African American Resistance in Antebellum America; 4 "We Will Wade to Our Knees in Blood": Blacksmiths and Ritual Spaces in Gabriel Prosser's Conspiracy; 5 "I Will Gather All Nations": Ethnic Collaboration in Denmark Vesey's Charleston Plot; 6 "I Was Ordained for Some Great Purpose": Conjure, Christianity, and Nat Turner's RevoltCoda: Folklore and the Creation of an African American Identity; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y N2 - The River Flows On offers an impressively broad examination of slave resistance in America, spanning the colonial and antebellum eras in both the North and South and covering all forms of recalcitrance, from major revolts and rebellions to everyday acts of disobedience. Walter C. Rucker analyzes American slave resistance with a keen understanding of its African influences, tracing the emergence of an African American identity and culture. Rucker points to the shared cultural heritage that facilitated collective action among both African- and American-born slaves, such as the ubiquitous belief UR - http://uttyler.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=876371 ER -