Exodus and the politics of liberty in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, 1760-1800 -- Exodus as the blueprint for building free black communities in America and abroad, 1800-1840 -- Afro-Atlantic exodus: integration vs. emigration in the era of manifest destiny, 1840-1861 -- Exodus, The civil war, and reconstruction: from Egypt to the border of Canaan, an American journey, 1861-1877 -- African Americans in the nadir: American Egypt, American Canaan, 1877-1900 -- Afterword: The first Joshua generation-stranded on the border of Canaan, 1895-1903
How African writers reconstructed the biblical narrative to form a new identity
