From Slavery to Freedom : A History of Negro Americans

by FRANKLIN, JOHN HOPE

• ISBN13: 9780394563626
• ISBN10: 039456362X
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1987-09-12
• Publisher: Knopf

Summary

The eighth edition of this best selling text has been thoroughly revised to include expanded material on the slave resistance, the recent history of African Americans in the United States, more on the history of women, and popular culture. The text has also been redesigned with new charts, maps, photographs, paintings, illustrations, and color inserts and an extensive package has been assembled, using technology and other multimedia to bring history to life. Written by distinguished and award-winning authors, retaining the same features that have made it the most popular text on African American History ever, and with fresh and appealing new features, From Slavery to Freedom remains the most revered, respected, honored text on the market.. . . . . .

Table of Contents

Land of Their Ancestors

The African Way of Life

The Slave Trade and the New World

Colonial Slavery

That All May Be Free

Blacks in the New Republic

Blacks and Manifest Destiny

That Peculiar Institution

Quasi-Free Blacks

Slavery and Intersectional Strife

Civil War

The Effort to Attain Peace

Losing the Peace

Philanthropy and Self-Help

The Color Line

In Pursuit of Democracy

Democracy Escapes

The Harlem Renaissance

The New Deal Chapter Twenty: The American Dilemma

Fighting for the Four Freedoms

African Americans in the Cold War Era

The Black Revolution

New Forms of Activism

Legacies for the Twenty-First Century

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