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1. Land of their ancestors -- Ghana -- Mali -- Songhay -- Other states -- 2. The African way of life -- Political institutions -- Economic life -- Social organization -- Religion -- The arts -- African culture in the diaspora -- 3. The slave trade and the new world -- European and Asian interest -- Africans in the new world -- The big business of slave trading -- One-way passage -- Colonial enterprise in the Caribbean -- The plantation system -- Slavery in mainland Latin America -- 4. Colonial slavery -- Virginia and Maryland -- The Carolinas and Georgia -- The middle colonies -- Blacks in colonial New England -- 5. That all may be free -- Slavery and the revolutionary philosophy -- Blacks fighting for American independence -- The movement to manumit slaves -- The conservative reaction -- 6. Blacks in the new republic -- The Black population in 1790 -- Slavery and the Industrial Revolution -- Trouble in the Caribbean -- The closing of the slave trade -- The search for independence -- 7. Blacks and manifest destiny -- Frontier influences -- Black pioneers in the westward march -- The War of 1812 -- Emergence of the cotton kingdom -- The domestic slave trade -- Persistence of the African trade -- 8. That peculiar institution -- Scope and extent -- The slave codes -- Plantation scene -- Nonagricultural pursuits -- Social considerations -- The slave's reaction to bondage -- |
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9. Quasi-free Blacks -- American anomaly -- Economic and social development -- The struggle in the North and West -- Colonization -- 10. Slavery and intersectional strife -- The North attacks -- Black abolitionists -- Runaways, overland and underground -- The South strikes back -- Stress and strain in the 1850s -- 11. Civil War -- Uncertain federal policy -- Moving toward freedom -- Confederate policy -- Blacks fighting for the union -- Victory! -- 12. The effort to attain peace -- Reconstruction and the nation -- Conflicting policies -- Relief and rehabilitation -- Economic adjustment -- Political currents -- 13. Losing the peace -- The struggle for domination -- The overthrow of reconstruction -- The movement for disfranchisement -- The triumph of white supremacy -- 14. Philanthropy and self-help -- Northern philanthropy and African-American education -- The age of Booker T. Washington -- Struggles in the economic sphere -- Social and cultural growth -- 15. The color line -- The new American imperialism -- America's empire of people of color -- Urban problems -- The pattern of violence -- New solutions for old problems -- 16. In pursuit of democracy -- World War I -- The enlistment of African Americans -- Service overseas -- On the home front -- |
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17. Democracy escapes -- The reaction -- The voice of protest rises -- 18. The Harlem renaissance -- Socioeconomic problems and African-American literature -- Harlem, the seat and center -- The circle widens -- 19. The New Deal -- Depression -- Political regeneration -- Roosevelt's "Black cabinet" -- Government agencies and relief for Blacks -- Black labor and the unions -- 20. The American dilemma -- Trends in education -- Opportunities for self-expression -- The world of African Americans -- One world or two? -- 21. Fighting for the four freedoms -- Arsenal of democracy -- Blacks in the service -- The home fires -- The United Nations and human welfare -- 22. African American in the Cold War era -- Progress -- Reaction -- Urbanization and its consequences -- 23. The Black revolution -- The road to revolution -- The beginnings -- Marching for freedom -- The illusion of equality -- Revolution at high tide -- Balance sheet of the revolution -- 24. Reaction and progress -- The Reagan years -- A new economic and political thrust -- The Bush quadrennium -- Writers and artists in later years -- Heard and seen by millions -- 25. Half century of change -- Stirrings -- "On the pulse of morning" -- Race-based politics -- Enlarging educational opportunities -- African Americans and the world. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 637-685) and index. |
| LCCN | 99047892 |
| ISBN | 0072295813 |
| ISBN | 9780072295818 |
| ISBN | 007243046X (bk. and cd) |
| ISBN | 9780072430462 (bk. and cd) |
