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Tables of Contents for Exodus
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
PART ONE Exodus History
1
104
``Bent Twigs and Broken Backs'': An Introduction
3
16
Of the Black Church and the Making of a Black Public
19
25
Exodus, Race, and the Politics of Nation
44
19
Race, Nation, and the Ideology of Chosenness
63
19
The Nation and Freedom Celebrations
82
23
PART TWO Exodus Politics
105
55
The Initial Years of the Black Convention Movement
107
19
Respectability and Race, 1835-1842
126
17
``Pharaoh's on Both Sides of the Blood-Red Waters'': Henry Highland Garnet and the National Convention of 1843
143
17
Epilogue: The Tragedy of African American Politics
160
9
Notes
169
36
Index
205