Africans and African Americans to the 1820s / Dixie Ray Haggard -- Free Blacks in Antebellum America / Shelby Callaway -- Still rising : an intricate look at Black female slaves / Crystal Johnston -- Safety in the briar patch : enslaved communities in the nineteenth-century United States / Karen Wilson -- Uncovering the true relationship between masters and slaves / Jennifer Hildebrand -- "Yes, we all shall be free" : African Americans make the Civil War a struggle for freedom / David Williams and Theresa Crisp Williams -- African Americans during Reconstruction (1863-1877) / Dawn Herd-Clark -- African American responses to early Jim Crow / Mary Block -- "Their plows singing beneath the sandy loam" : African American agriculture in the late-nineteenth-century South / Mark D. Hersey -- African Americans in the nineteenth-century West / Jim Leiker -- Black Indians : America's forgotten people / Dixie Ray Haggard -- African American leaders / Paige Haggard.
Summary
Provides insights into the way African Americans lived and how slave-era experiences affected their lives afterward.