A Nation under Our Feet

Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration

2004 Pulitzer Prize in History
2004 Bancroft Prize Given by Columbia University
Honorable Mention 2004 The Mark Lynton History Prize, Sponsored by the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard
2004 Merle Curti Prize in Social History, Sponsored by the Organization for American Historians
2005 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title

Prologue: Looking Out from Slavery

Part I: "The Jacobins of the Country"

1. Of Chains and Threads

2. "The Choked Voice of a Race at Last Unloosed"

3. Of Rumors and Revelations

Part II: To Build a New Jerusalem

4. Reconstructing the Body Politic

5. "A Society Turned Bottomside Up"

6. Of Paramilitary Politics

Part III: The Unvanquished

7. The Education of Henry Adams

8. Of Ballots and Biracialism

9. The Valley and the Shadows

Epilogue: "Up, You Mighty Race"

Appendix: Black Leaders Data Set

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Author photo: Caitlin Kelley

Steven Hahn is Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor in American History at University of Pennsylvania.