A Mind to Stay: White Plantation, Black Homeland

by Sydney Nathans

Book Overview

The exodus of millions of African Americans from the rural South is a central theme of black life and liberation in the twentieth century. A Mind to Stay offers a counterpoint to the narrative of the Great Migration. Sydney Nathans tells the rare story of people who moved from being enslaved to becoming owners of the very land they had worked in bondage, and who have held on to it from emancipation through the Civil Rights era.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674972147
• ISBN13: 9780674972148
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.4"