01519cam a2200265 a 45000010009000000050017000090080041000260100017000670200042000840400018001260430012001440500024001560820021001801000030002012450107002312600051003383000034003895040064004235050559004876300026010466500074010726500032011466500037011786500038012151741456020250312110506.0170328s2013 txua b 001 0 eng  a 2012028965 a9781602585317 (hardback : alk. paper) aDLCcDLCdDLC an-us---00aPS153.N5bT475 201300a810.9/8960732231 aThomas, Rhondda Robinson.10aClaiming Exodus :ba cultural history of Afro-Atlantic identity, 1774-1903 /cRhondda Robinson Thomas. aWaco, Tex. :bBaylor University Press,cc2013. axii, 199 p. :bill. ;c24 cm. aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 161-190) and index.0 aExodus 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, 1895-1903.00aBiblexIn literature. 0aAmerican literaturexAfrican American authorsxHistory and criticism. 0aExodus, The, in literature. 0aAfrican Americans in literature. 0aAfrican AmericansxRace identity.