African-American Odyssey, The, Volume 1

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

• ISBN13: 9780136150138
• ISBN10: 0136150136
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• 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
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