| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America. By Walter C. Rucker. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xiv, 288 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-3109-1.)

For the past sixty-three years, ever since Herbert Aptheker challenged the prevailing historiography regarding the behavior of enslaved Africans in America, specialists have advanced theories explaining the timing and geography of slave insurgency (or its relative absence). In a new and thoughtful interpretation, Walter C. Rucker examines patterns of African settlement in North America and concludes that West African cultures, far from being an impediment to collective rebellion, helped shape the most notable plots and insurrections of the colonial and early national eras.

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