A Nation under Our Feet by Steven Hahn - 9780674017658

Harvard University Press

A Nation under Our FeetBlack Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration\nAuthor(s): Steven Hahn\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Harvard University Press, United States\nImprint: The Belknap Press\nISBN-13: 9780674017658, 978-0674017658\nSynopsis\nThis is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political peoplean embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building. At the same time, Hahn asks us to think in more expansive ways about the nature and boundaries of politics and political practice.\n\nEmphasizing the importance of kinship, labor, and networks of communication, A Nation under Our Feet explores the political relations and sensibilities that developed under slavery and shows how they set the stage for grassroots mobilization. Hahn introduces us to local lead.