ABSTRACT
This one-volume, comprehensive overview of African American history brings together original essays by some of the foremost authorities in the field. Arranged both thematically and chronologically, these papers discuss a wide range of topics - from the Middle Passage to the Civil Rights Movement; from abolition to the Great Migration; from issues in religion, class and family to literature, education and politics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|42 pages
Out of Africa
part 2|78 pages
This “Peculiar Institution”
chapter 5|21 pages
“Though We Are Not Slaves, We Are Not Free”
Quasi-Free Blacks in Antebellum America
part 3|110 pages
The Reconstruction and Beyond
chapter 6|26 pages
Full of Faith, Full of Hope
The African-American Experience from Emancipation to Segregation
part 4|51 pages
Africa-American Identity and Culture
part 5|66 pages
Family, Class and Gennder
part 6|68 pages
The Postwar Agenda
chapter 20|14 pages
The Quest for Black Equity
African-American Politics since the Voting Rights Act of 1965
