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Alienable rights : the exclusion of African Americans in a white man's land, 1619-2000 / Francis D. Adams and Barry Sanders.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adams, Francis D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights--History.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- History.
- Slavery--United States--History.
- Slavery.
- African Americans--Segregation.
- United States.
- African Americans--Segregation--History.
- Racism--United States--History.
- Racism.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 368 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperCollins Publisher, [2003]
- Summary:
- A work of American history that reveals how whites have excluded blacks from virtually every area of American life, denying them citizenship and humanity, from colonial times to the present day.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 "Twenty Negars": Slavery Is Planted in the Colonies 1
- Chapter 2 Attitudes Harden in the Promised Land 21
- Chapter 3 The Dark Side of the Constitution 50
- Chapter 4 The Founding Fathers at Home 79
- Chapter 5 Freed Blacks: The Heart of the Dilemma 109
- Chapter 6 The Rise of Interregional Tension 131
- Chapter 7 The Advent of the Confederacy 167
- Chapter 8 The Toils of Reconstruction 191
- Chapter 9 "Separate but Equal": Jim Crow Becomes the Law of the Land 227
- Chapter 10 Civil Rights Victories; Civil Rights Backlash 265
- Chapter 11 The New Federalism and Its Legacy 294.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-356) and index.
- ISBN:
- 006019975X
- OCLC:
- 51518613
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