From slavery to freedom : a history of African Americans / John Hope Franklin, Evelyn Higginbotham.

Author/creator Franklin, John Hope
Other author Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks, 1945-
Format Book
Edition9th ed.
Publication InfoNew York : McGraw-Hill, ©2011.
Descriptionxxv, 710 pages : illustrations (mostly color), maps, photographs ; 26 cm
Subjects
African Americans--History.
Slavery--United States. --History.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 640-676) and index.
LCCN 2009042935
ISBN9780072963786 (alk. paper)
ISBN0072963786 (alk. paper)
ISBN0077407512 (vol. 1)
ISBN9780077407513 (vol. 1)
ISBN0077407520 (vol. 2)
ISBN9780077407520 (vol. 2)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks E185 .F8266 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold