Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans, With Documents, Updated for the AP Course

by Butler, Alysha; Williams-Giordano, Rachel; White, Deborah Gray; Bay, Mia; Martin, Waldo

• ISBN13: 9781319579821
• ISBN10: 1319579825
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781319595654
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2025-02-20
• Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
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Table of Contents

Unit 1 Origins of the African Diaspora

CHAPTER 1 African Origins, Beginnings to ca. 1600 C.E. 

CHAPTER 2 From Africa to America, 1441–1808 

Unit 2 Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance 

CHAPTER 3 Slavery in North America, 1619–1740 

CHAPTER 4 African Americans in the Age of Revolution, 1741–1783 

CHAPTER 5 Slavery and Freedom in the New Republic, 1775–1820 

CHAPTER 6 Black Life in the Slave South, 1820–1860 

CHAPTER 7 The Northern Black Freedom Struggle and the Coming of the Civil War, 1830–1860 

CHAPTER 8 Freedom Rising: The Civil War, 1861–1865 

Unit 3 The Practice of Freedom  

CHAPTER 9 Reconstruction: The Making and Unmaking of a Revolution, 1865–1877 

CHAPTER 10 Black Life and Culture during the Nadir, 1877–1915 

CHAPTER 11 The New Negro Comes of Age, 1915–1930 

Unit 4 Movements and Debates  

CHAPTER 12 Catastrophe, Recovery, and Renewal, 1930–1942 

CHAPTER 13 Fighting for a Double Victory in the World War II Era, 1938–1950 

CHAPTER 14 The Early Civil Rights Movement, 1945–1963 

CHAPTER 15 Multiple Meanings of Freedom: The Movement Broadens, 1961–1976 

CHAPTER 16 Racial Progress in an Era of Backlash and Change, 1965–2000 

CHAPTER 17 African Americans in the Twenty-First Century