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More than any other text,The African-American Odysseyilluminates the central place of African Americans in U.S. history not only telling the story of what it has meant to be black in America, but also how African-American history is inseparably weaved into the greater context of American history and vice versa. Now updated with discussions of the historic election of the first African-American president of the United States.

Brief Contents
Becoming African American	p. 1
Africa	p. 2
Middle Passage	p. 24
Black People in Colonial North America, 1526ndash;1763	p. 46
Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle for Independence, 1763ndash;1783	p. 72
African Americans in the New Nation, 1783ndash;1820	p. 94
Slavery, Abolition, and the Quest for Freedom: The Coming of the Civil War, 1793ndash;1861	p. 120
Life in the Cotton Kingdom	p. 122
Free Black People in Antebellum America	p. 146
Opposition to Slavery, 1800ndash;1833	p. 170
Let Your Motto Be Resistance, 1833ndash;1850	p. 188
ldquo;And Black People Were at the Heart of Itrdquo;: 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, 1865ndash;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, 1954ndash;1965	p. 512
The Struggle Continues, 1965ndash;1980	p. 542
Black Politics, White Backlash, 1980 to
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