Includes bibliographical references (pages 640-676) and index.
Contents
Ancestral Africa -- Africans and the Atlantic world -- Establishing North American slavery -- Eighteenth-century slave societies -- Give me liberty -- Building communities in the early republic -- Southern slavery -- Antebellum free Blacks -- Abolitionism in black and white -- Civil War -- The promises and pitfalls of Reconstruction -- The color line -- The era of self-help -- In pursuit of democracy -- Voices of protest -- The arts at home and abroad -- The New Deal era -- Double V for victory -- American dilemmas -- We shall overcome -- Black power -- Progress and poverty -- Perspectives on the present.
Summary
Documents the African American experience, from their origin in Africa to slavery in the Western Hemisphere and their successful struggle for freedom.
