TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas,Rhondda Robinson
TI  - Claiming Exodus: a cultural history of Afro-Atlantic identity, 1774-1903 
SN  - 9781602585317 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - PS153.N5 T475 2013
U1  - 810.9/896073 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Waco, Tex.
PB  - Baylor University Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - In literature
KW  - American literature
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Exodus, The, in literature
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Race identity
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-190) and index; Exodus and the politics of liberty in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, 1760-1800 -- Exodus as the blueprint for building free black communities in America and abroad, 1800-1840 -- Afro-Atlantic exodus: integration vs. emigration in the era of manifest destiny, 1840-1861 -- Exodus, The civil war, and reconstruction: from Egypt to the border of Canaan, an American journey, 1861-1877 -- African Americans in the nadir: American Egypt, American Canaan, 1877-1900 -- Afterword: The first Joshua generation-stranded on the border of Canaan, 1895-1903
ER  -