ABSTRACT

First published in 1993. This study traces the complex social, economic, religious, and political forces which affected African-Americans and their overall response to them. It more specifically illustrates how the prevailing views and actions of the dominant society serve to limit the aspirations of African-Americans in rising above their supposed place within American life.

chapter |26 pages

Social Conditions

chapter |18 pages

Economic Conditions

chapter |16 pages

The Search for Education

chapter |26 pages

Societies and the Press

chapter |22 pages

Religious Life

chapter |22 pages

Agitation for the Suffrage

chapter |16 pages

Political Alignments

chapter |14 pages

Colonization

chapter |20 pages

Abolition Movement

chapter |12 pages

In Retrospect