cover image Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms: Social and Literary Manipulations of a Religious Myth (Revised)

Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms: Social and Literary Manipulations of a Religious Myth (Revised)

Wilson Jeremiah Moses. Pennsylvania State University Press, $28.95 (300pp) ISBN 978-0-271-00933-9

Moses examines the evolution of the black messianic tradition over 150 years of African American history. (May)