Exodus!

Acknowledgements
Part One: Exodus History
1. "Bent Twigs and Broken Backs": An Introduction
2. Of the Black Church and the Making of a Black Public
3. Exodus, Race, and the Politics of Nation
4. Race, Nation, and the Ideology of Chosenness
5. The Nation and Freedom Celebrations
Part Two: Exodus Politics
6. The Initial Years of the Black Convention Movement
7. Respectability and Race, 1835-1842
8. "Pharaoh's on Both Sides of the Blood-Red Waters": Henry Highland Garnet and the National Convention of 1843
Epilogue: The Tragedy of African American Politics
Notes
Index