The African-American Odyssey to 1877

by Hine, Darlene Clark; Hine, William C.; Harrold, Stanley

• ISBN13: 9780130862983
• ISBN10: 0130862983
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Table of Contents

PART I BECOMING AFRICAN AMERICAN
Africa
Herodotus on Carathaginian Trade and on the City of Meroe	1	(1)
A Tenth-Century Arab Description of the East African Coast	2	(1)
Ghana and Its People in the Mid-Eleventh Century	2	(1)
Muslim Reform in Songhai	3	(1)
Middle Passage
England Asserts Her Dominion through Legislation in 1660	4	(3)
A Slave Tells of His Capture in Africa in 1798	7	(2)
A Slave Ship Surgeon Writes about the Slave Trade in 1788	9	(1)
An African Captive Tells the Story of Crossing the Atlantic in a Slave Ship	10	(3)
Black People in British North America, 1619--1763
Maryland Addresses the Status of Slaves in 1664	13	(1)
A Virginian Describes the Difference between Servants and Slaves in 1722	13	(2)
The Slaves Revolt in South Carolina in 1739	15	(2)
Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle for Independence, 1763--1783
An Early Abolitionist Speaks Out Against Slavery in 1757	17	(1)
An American Patriot Tries to Stir Up the Soldiers of the American Revolution, 1776	18	(2)
A Free African American Petitions the Government for Emancipation of All Slaves, 1777	20	(1)
Benjamin Banneker---Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1791)	21	(2)
Slave Stories Told to a Folklorist in South Carolina	23	(2)
African Americans in the New Nation, 1783--1820
Territorial Governments are Established by Congress, 1787	25	(2)
Congress Prohibits Importation of Slaves, 1807	27	(1)
Missouri Admitted to Statehood, Slavery at Issue, 1820	28	(1)
The President Asks Congress for a Declaration of War, 1812	29	(2)
An Architect Describes African-American Music And Instruments in 1818	31	(2)
PART II SLAVERY, ABOLITION, AND THE QUEST FOR FREEDOM: THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1793--1861
Life in the Cotton Kingdom
State Laws Govern Slavery, 1824	33	(1)
Southern Novel Depicts Slavery, 1832	34	(2)
A Slave Tells of His Sale at Auction, 1848	36	(2)
Farm Journal Reports on the Care and Feeding of Slaves, 1836	38	(2)
A Slave Girl Tells of Her Life, 1861	40	(1)
A Muslim Slave Speaks Out, 1831	41	(2)
Free Black People in Antebellum America
A Legal Scholar Opposes Spreading the Vote, 1821	43	(1)
Thomas R. Dew's Defense of Slavery, 1832	44	(1)
Senator Sees Slavery as a ``Positive Good'', 1837	45	(1)
An African-American Novel Critiques Racism in the North, 1859	45	(3)
Opposition to Slavery, 1800--1833
An African American Advocates Radical Action in 1829	48	(1)
Abolitionist Demands Immediate End to Slavery, 1831	49	(1)
Southern Belle Denounces Slavery, 1838	50	(2)
A Black Feminist Speaks Out in 1851	52	(2)
Let Your Motto be Resistance, 1833--1850
A Newspaper Man Declares the ``Manifest Destiny'' of the United States in 1845	54	(2)
The American Anti-Slavery Society Declares its Sentiments, 1833	56	(1)
A Call for Women to Become Abolitionists	57	(1)
An Abolitionist Lecturer's Instructions	58	(2)
``And Black People Were at the Heart of It'': The United States Disunites over Slavery
The Compromise of 1850	60	(1)
The Lincoln-Douglas Debate, 1858	61	(2)
Northern State Defies Fugitive Slave Act, 1855	63	(2)
New England Writer Portrays Slavery in 1852	65	(3)
A Slave Sues for Freedom in 1857	68	(1)
A Senatorial Candidate Addresses the Question of Slavery in 1858	69	(2)
An Abolitionist is Given the Death Sentence in 1859	71	(1)
PART III THE CIVIL WAR, EMANCIPATION, AND BLACK RECONSTRUCTION: THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War
The Working-Men of Manchester, England Write to President Lincoln on the Question of Slavery in 1862	72	(1)
President Lincoln Responds to the Working-Men of Manchester on the Subject of Slavery in 1863	73	(1)
An African-American Soldier Writes to the President Appealing for Equality in 1863	74	(1)
President Abraham Lincoln Delivers the Gettysburg Address in 1863	75	(1)
Paul Laurence Dunbar, ``The Colored Soldiers'', 1896	76	(2)
The Meaning of Freedom: The Promise of Reconstruction, 1865--1868
Charlotte Forten, Life on the Sea Islands, 1864	78	(1)
The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, 1865	79	(1)
Black Code of Mississippi, 1865	80	(3)
Frederick Douglass, Speech to the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1865	83	(1)
The Civil Rights Act of 1866	84	(1)
President Johnson's Veto of the Civil Rights Act 1866	85	(2)
The First Reconstruction Act, 1867	87	(2)
The Meaning of Freedom: The Failure of Reconstruction
Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan, 1868	89	(1)
Speech in the Senate, 1876	90
Blanche K. Bruce