From slavery to freedom : a history of African Americans / John Hope Franklin (1915-2009), Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harvard University.

"This edition carries the history of African Americans, and it also draws upon the latest historical scholarship. The new From Slavery to Freedom offers narrative, visual, and interpretive qualities that will appeal to today's readers."--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009 (Author)
Other Authors: Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks, 1945-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : McGraw-Hill, ©2021.
Edition:Tenth edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Ancestral Africa (circa 500 B.C.E to 1600)
  • Africans in the Atlantic World (1492-1800)
  • Establishing North American Slavery (1520s to 1720s)
  • Eighteenth-Century Slave Societies (1700-1780s)
  • Give Me Liberty (1763-1787)
  • Building Communities in the Early Republic (1790-1830)
  • Southern Slavery (1790-1860)
  • Antebellum Free Blacks (1830-1860)
  • Abolitionism in Black and White (1820-1860)
  • Civil War (1861-1865)
  • Promises and Pitfalls of Reconstruction (1863-1877)
  • The Color Line (1877-1917)
  • The Era of Self-Help (1880-1916)
  • In Pursuit of Democracy (1914-1919)
  • Voices of Protest (1910-1928)
  • The Arts at Home and Abroad (1920s to early 1930s)
  • The New Deal Era (1929-1941)
  • Double V for Victory (1941-1945)
  • American Dilemmas (1940-1955)
  • We Shall Overcome (1947-1967)
  • Black Power (1955-1980)
  • Progress and Poverty (1980-2000)
  • Perspectives on the Present (since 2000)