Table of Contents

Prologue: The Revolution Remembered: The Fifth of March, 1858 - PART 1: FASHIONING A MORAL COMMUNITY, 1775-1800 - In the Bowels of a Free and Christian Country, Living in the Revolutionary Era - Sons and Daughters of Distress: A Theology of Liberation - PART 2: ENVIRONMENTS OF MEMORY, 1800-1835 - From Laws and Revolutions, Freedom Lieux - Africa Envisioned, Africa Found - Moral Community, Ethnic Identity, and Political Action - PART 3: HISTORY AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY, 1835-1860 - Haiti, Canada, and a Pan-African Vision - Biography, Narrative, and Memory: The Construction of a Popular Historical Consciousness - Epilogue: Emancipation, Reconstruction, and Empire-Building

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Elizabeth Rauh Bethel is Professor of Sociology at Lander University and author of "Promised Land: A Century of Life in a Negro Community" and "AIDS: Readings on a Global Crisis."