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Author Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F., 1960- author.

Title Setting down the sacred past : African-American race histories / Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (341 pages)
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book
Contents Wonders of the ancient past -- The children of Gilead -- The serpentine trail -- Exodus and Ethiopia -- The Negro race history -- "The grand traditions of our race."
Summary As early as the 1780's, African Americans told stories that enabled them to survive and even thrive in the midst of unspeakable assault. Tracing previously unexplored narratives from the late eighteenth century to the 1920's, Laurie Maffly-Kipp brings to light an extraordinary trove of sweeping race histories that African Americans wove together out of racial and religious concerns.-publisher description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject African Americans -- Race identity -- History -- 18th century
African Americans -- Race identity -- History -- 19th century
African Americans -- Religion -- 18th century
African Americans -- Religion -- 19th century
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
African Americans in literature -- History -- 18th century
African Americans in literature -- History -- 19th century
Black theology -- History
HISTORY / United States / General
African Americans in literature
African Americans -- Intellectual life
African Americans -- Race identity
African Americans -- Religion
Black theology
Gender & Ethnic Studies.
Social Sciences.
Ethnic & Race Studies.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009053861
ISBN 0674050797
9780674050792
9780674056626
0674056620