African-American Odyssey, The: Combined Volume

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

• ISBN13: 9780136150121
• ISBN10: 0136150128
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

More than any other text,The African-American Odyssey illuminates the central place of African Americans in American history with clear, direct writing by leading scholars and an in-depth exploration of African-American history from its African roots to the 21st century. This text places African-American history at the center, and in the context, of American History.

Table of Contents

Becoming African American	p. 1
Africa	p. 2
Middle Passage	p. 24
Black People in Colonial North America, 1526 1763	p. 46
Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle for Independence, 1763 1783	p. 72
African Americans in the New Nation, 1783 1820	p. 94
Slavery, Abolition, and the Quest for Freedom: The Coming of the Civil War, 1793 1861	p. 120
Life in the Cotton Kingdom	p. 122
Free Black People in Antebellum America	p. 146
Opposition to Slavery, 1800 1833	p. 170
Let Your Motto Be Resistance, 1833 1850	p. 188
"And Black People Were at the Heart of It": The United States Disunites over Slavery	p. 204
The Civil War, Emancipation, and Black Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution	p. 230
Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War	p. 232
The Meaning of Freedom: The Promise of Reconstruction, 1865 1868	p. 258
The Meaning of Freedom: The Failure of Reconstruction,	p. 284
Searching for Safe Spaces	p. 306
White Supremacy Triumphant: African Americans in the South in the Late Nineteenth Century	p. 308
Black Southerners Challenge White Supremacy	p. 334
Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African Americans in the Early Twentieth Century	p. 364
African Americans and the 1920s	p. 400
The Great Depression and World War II	p. 426
The Great Depression and The New Deal	p. 428
Black Culture and Society in the 1930s and 1940s	p. 454
The World War II Era and Seeds of a Revolution	p. 480
The Black Revolution	p. 510
The Freedom Movement, 1954 1965	p. 512
The Struggle Continues, 1965 1980	p. 542
Black Politics, White Backlash, 1980 to Present	p. 576
African Americans in the New Millenium
Epilogue: "A Nation Within a Nation"	p. 608
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