The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America. By Walter C. Rucker. Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. [xiv], 288. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-3109-1.)
In The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America, Walter C. Rucker contributes to the growing literature on the transmission of African culture to North America. He argues that African influences underlay the major slave insurrections and conspiracies that occurred in America's history. Each of Rucker's six chapters addresses a single slave rebellion or conspiracy: the revolts in ...