Freedom's Odyssey : African American History Essays from Phylon

by Henderson, Alexa Benson; Edmond, Janice S.; Sumler-Edmond, Janice

• ISBN13: 9780966855500
• ISBN10: 0966855507
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Clark Atlanta Univ Pr

Summary

This anthology brings together for the first time twenty-nine of the most significant essays on African American History from the rich legacy of scholarship published originally by Phylon: the Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture from 1940 through 1987. Arranged both by chronology and theme, collectively they provide a vivid, detailed mosaic of African American history and a structural frame for the study of the African American journey from the earliest days of slavery through the Civil Rights Era. A comprehensive editorial introduction as well as specific, contextual introductions position each essay in the study of history and in relation to contemporary scholarship. Beyond its significance as a reference work of rich archival value, Freedom's Odyssey will be of interest to current scholars, teachers, and students in various fields. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction	1	(8)
Part One FREEDOM DENIED: ENSLAVED AFRICANS
``We Slipped and Learned to Read'': Slave Accounts of the Literacy Process, 1830-1865	9	(20)
Janet Cornelius
Slavery in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, 1773-1865	29	(22)
Clarence L. Mohr
Mutiny on the Slave Ships	51	(12)
Lorenzo J. Greene
Towards Freedom: An Analysis of Slave Revolts in the United States	63	(14)
Marion D. de B. Kilson
Slave Revolt, Slave Debate: A Comparison	77	(18)
John Herbert Roper
Lolita G. Brockington
Part Two FREEDOM BECKONS: ABOLITION, COLONIZATION, AND EMIGRATION
Philanthropy, Self Help, and Social Control: The New York Manumission Society and Free Blacks, 1785-1810	95	(14)
John L. Rury
Abolition and Colonization: The Years of Conflict, 1829-1834	109	(18)
Bruce Rosen
The Negro Emigration Movement, 1849-1854: A Phase of Negro Nationalism	127	(14)
Howard H. Bell
The Inevitability of the Douglass-Garrison Conflict	141	(18)
Tyrone Tillery
Part Three FREEDOM'S PEOPLE: AFRICAN AMERICANS DURING THE POSTBELLUM RECONSTRUCTION ERA
Slavery Revisited: Peonage in the South	159	(18)
N. Gordon Carper
Some Notes on the Role of Negroes in the Establishment of Public Schools in South Carolina	177	(8)
Edward F. Sweat
The Negro and the Democratic Party, 1875-1915	185	(20)
August Meier
Black Participation in the Centennial of 1876	205	(16)
Philip S. Foner
Negro Thought and the Exodus of 1879	221	(18)
Billy D. Higgins
The Leflore County Massacre and the Demise of the Colored Farmers' Alliance	239	(12)
William F. Holmes
Part Four FREEDOM DELAYED: SEPARATION AND INEQUALITY IN THE JIM CROW ERA
The Black Movement Against Jim Crow Education in Buffalo, New York, 1800-1900	251	(24)
Arthur O. White
Black Dreams and ``Free'' Homes: The Oklahoma Territory, 1891-1894	275	(20)
Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr.
Lonnie E. Underhill
Struggle for Equality: Fort Des Moines Training Camp for Colored Officers, 1917	295	(18)
Hal S. Chase
The Afro-American Response to the Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934	313	(22)
Brenda Gayle Plummer
The Black Press and the Drive for Integrated Graduate and Professional Schools	335	(18)
Bill Weaver
Oscar C. Page
Military Segregation and the 1940 Presidential Election	353	(18)
Richard M. Dalfiume
The Black Press and the Assault on Professional Baseball's ``Color Line,'' October 1945-April 1947	371	(20)
Bill L. Weaver
Part Five FREEDOM'S CHAMPIONS: RACE LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL EFFORTS
Booker T. Washington and the Ulrich Affair	391	(20)
Willard B. Gatewood
Miss Ida B. Wells and Memphis Lynching	411	(14)
David M. Tucker
Only for the Bourgeois? James Weldon Johnson and the NAACP, 1916-1930	425	(18)
Bernard Eisenberg
Negro Leaders, the Republican Party, and the Election of 1932	443	(12)
Charles H. Martin
Walter White and the American Negro Soldier in World War II: A Diplomatic Dilemma for Britain	455	(10)
Thomas Hachey
The Roosevelt Administration and Black America: Federal Surveillance Policy and Civil Rights During the New Deal and World II Years	465	(18)
Kenneth O'Reilly
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Paradox of Nonviolent Direct Action	483	(16)
James A. Colaiaco
Appendix Alphapetical List of Authors with Citations	499	(4)
Index	503