| Description |
xxiv, 742 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 637-685) and index. |
| Contents |
1 Land of Their Ancestors 1 -- 2 African Way of Life 15 -- 3 Slave Trade and the New World 33 -- 4 Colonial Slavery 64 -- 5 That All May Be Free 79 -- 6 Blacks in the New Republic 96 -- 7 Blacks and Manifest Destiny 118 -- 8 That Peculiar Institution 138 -- 9 Quasi-Free Blacks 167 -- 10 Slavery and Intersectional Strife 192 -- 11 Civil War 220 -- 12 Effort to Attain Peace 245 -- 13 Losing the Peace 272 -- 14 Philanthropy and Self-Help 292 -- 15 Color Line 326 -- 16 In Pursuit of Democracy 357 -- 17 Democracy Escapes 382 -- 18 Harlem Renaissance 400 -- 19 New Deal 418 -- 20 American Dilemma 444 -- 21 Fighting for the Four Freedoms 475 -- 22 African Americans in the Cold War Era 505 -- 23 Black Revolution 522 -- 24 Reaction and Progress 563 -- 25 Half Century of Change 602. |
| Summary |
Since its original publication in 1947, From Slavery to Freedom has maintained its preeminence as the most authoritative history of African Americans. Surveying a vast human odyssey of more than a thousand years, co-authors John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss, Jr., vividly detail the journey of African Americans from their origin in the civilizations of Africa, through slavery in the Western Hemisphere, to the successful struggle for freedom in the West Indies, Latin America, and the United States. |
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The authors discuss the history of blacks in the Caribbean and Latin America as it relates to the history of African Americans in the United States. Other chapters incorporate recent scholarship to cover slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the period between World War I and World War II (including the Harlem Renaissance). |
| Subject |
African Americans -- History.
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Slavery -- United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
Moss, Alfred A., 1943-
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| Added Title |
History of African Americans |
| ISBN |
9780375406713 |
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0375406719 |
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