The Routledge Atlas of African American History

by Earle,Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780415921367
• ISBN10: 0415921368
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-13
• Publisher: ROUTLEDGE

Summary

From the 16th century African slave trade to the 20th century struggle for equality,The Routledge Atlas of African American Historyexamines the geographical and historical context of the African American Experience. Focusing on issues and events that resonate to this day, topics include: slave revolts, black patriots, slave communities, the Civil War, African Americans in the armed services, the spread of Jim Crow, the Negro Baseball League, the Civil Rights Movement, the Voting Rights Act, the Harlem Renaissance, the expansion of the black middle class, and much more. Also inlcludes 50 color maps.

Author Biography

Jonathan Earle is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Kansas.

Table of Contents

Foreword	8	(2)
Introduction	10	(4)
PART I: THE ROOTS OF BLACK AMERICA	14	(18)
The African Past	16	(4)
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 1500--1800	20	(4)
The African Dispersion	24	(2)
Slavery in British North America, 1633--1755	26	(2)
Blacks in British North America, 1680--1740	28	(2)
Black Population on the Eve of the Revolution	30	(2)
PART II: TWO COMMUNITIES, SLAVE AND FREE	32	(20)
The First Emancipation	34	(2)
Free Blacks in the New Republic	36	(2)
Discrimination in the Antebellum North	38	(2)
The Free Black Community	40	(2)
The Cotton Kingdom	42	(4)
The Slave Community	46	(4)
Nat Turner's Rebellion, 1831	50	(2)
PART III: TOWARD FREEDOM	52	(18)
The Expansion of Slavery, 1819--57	54	(6)
Runaways, Kidnappings, and Abolitionists	60	(4)
Slavery and the Civil War	64	(2)
Radical Reconstruction, 1866--77	66	(2)
``Exodusters''	68	(2)
PART IV: AFRICAN AMERICANS UNDER ARMS	70	(24)
Black Patriots and Loyalists	72	(4)
Black Men in Blue	76	(2)
Buffalo Soldiers and the Indian Wars, 1866--90	78	(2)
Imperial Wars, 1898--1902	80	(2)
World War I	82	(2)
World War II	84	(4)
The Cold War: Korea and Vietnam	88	(4)
The 1990s: Peacekeeping and the Gulf War	92	(2)
PART V: THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY	94	(24)
Lynching and the New Racial Order	96	(2)
The Spread of Jim Crow	98	(2)
Black Colleges and Universities	100	(2)
The Great Migration	102	(2)
Marcus Garvey and the UNIA	104	(2)
The Negro Baseball Leagues	106	(2)
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott	108	(2)
Sit-ins and the Rise of SNCC	110	(2)
Voting Rights	112	(2)
African Decolonization and Black Nationalism	114	(2)
The Nation of Islam	116	(2)
PART VI: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY	118	(14)
The Harlem Renaissance	120	(2)
African American Musical Traditions	122	(2)
African American Culture	124	(2)
Black Political Realignment, 1928--40	126	(2)
Urbanization and Black Mayors	128	(2)
African American Population, 1990	130	(2)
Chronology	132	(4)
Further Reading	136	(3)
Index	139	(5)
Acknowledgments	144