A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration

A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration

This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people--an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural Afr…

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