A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration

This is the epic story of how African- Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people - an embryonic black nation.

As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building.

At the same time, Hahn asks us to think in more expansive ways about the nature and boundaries of politics and political practice.