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Article: American Congo: the African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta. By Nan Elizabeth Woodruff. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. [vi], 282. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-01047-7.)
Nan Elizabeth Woodruff has produced a masterful account of life in the Mississippi Delta in the era of Jim Crow. The book focuses on the struggle of African Americans to transcend the enormous obstacles confronting them in the Delta regions of the states of Mississippi and Arkansas. Woodruff places this struggle in the context of world capitalism and the problems it faced as imperial powers dealt with unprecedented challenges from their colonial subjects. While ...