The River Flows On

By Walter C. Rucker,

Book cover of The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America

Book description

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 analyses American slave resistance with…

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1 author picked The River Flows On as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

While we generally know the main details of several major slave uprisings in early American history.

Rucker dives deeper into the African cultural forces that influenced these episodes and how the expression of African cultural idioms during these resistance movements tells us more about the formation of African American culture.

By focusing on these cultural expressions, Rucker gives fresh insight into major slave uprisings and African American history which also makes for a fascinating read.

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