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From slavery to freedom : a history of Negro Americans
Takes full cognizance of the growing diversity and complexity of problems facing black Americans along with the recent escalation of scholarly research.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
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1988.
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| Edition: | Sixth Edition. |
| Series: | Borzoi book
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Land of their ancestors. Ghana ; Mali ; Songhay ; Other States
- 2. The African way of life. Political institutions ; Economic life ; Social organization ; Religion ; The arts ; The transplantation of African culture
- 3. The slave trade and the New World. European and Asian interests ; Africans in the New World ; The big business of slave trading ; One-way passage ; Colonial enterprise in the Caribbean ; The plantation system ; Slavery in mainland Latin America
- 4. Colonial slavery. Virginia and Maryland ; The Carolinas and Georgia ; The Middle Colonies ; Negroes in Colonial New England
- 5. That all may be free. Slavery and the Revolutionary philosophy ; Negroes fighting for American independence ; The movement to manumit Slaves ; The conservative reaction
- 6. THe turn of the century. The Negro population in 1790 ; Slavery and the Industrial Revolution ; Trouble in the Caribbean ; The closing of the slave trade ; The search for independence
- 7. The westward march. Frontier influences ; Negro pioneers in the westward march ; The War of 1812 ; Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom ; The domestic slave trade ; Persistence of the African trade
- 8. That peculiar institution. Scope and extent ; The Slave Codes ; Plantation scene ; Nonagricultural pursuits ; Social considerations ; The slave's reaction to bondage
- 9. Quasi-Free Negroes. American anomaly ; Economic and social development ; The struggle in the North and West ; Colonization
- 10. Slavery and intersectional strife. The North attacks ; Black abolitionists ; The Underground Railroad ; The South strikes back ; Stress and strain in the fifties
- 11. Civil War. Uncertain Federal policy ; Moving toward freedom ; Confederate policy ; Blacks fighting for the Union ; Victory!
- 12. The effort to attain peace. Reconstruction and the nation ; Conflicting policies ; Relief and rehabilitation ; Economic adjustment ; Political currents
- 13. Losing the peace. The struggle for domination ; The overthrow of Reconstruction ; The movement for disfranchisement ; The triumph of White supremacy.