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Setting Down the Sacred Past

African-American Race Histories

Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp

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ISBN 9780674050792

Publication Date: 04/30/2010

352 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Introduction
1. Wonders of the Ancient Past
2. The Children of Gilead
3. The Serpentine Trail
4. Exodus and Ethiopia
5. The Negro Race History
6. “The Grand Traditions of Our Race”
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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On the podcast of Brigham Young University’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, listen to Laurie Maffly-Kipp discuss the assaults on personal and collective identity experienced by enslaved Africans, and how they resisted to form new identities as African Americans

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