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From slavery to freedom : a history of African Americans / John Hope Franklin (1915-2009), Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harvard University.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009, author.
- Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks, 1945- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--History.
- African Americans.
- History.
- Slavery--United States--History.
- Slavery.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 710 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, photographs ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- Ninth edition.
- Other Title:
- History of African Americans
- Place of Publication:
- New York : McGraw-Hill/Connect Learn Succeed, [2011]
- Summary:
- Documents the African American experience, from their origin in Africa to slavery in the Western Hemisphere and their successful struggle for freedom.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 640-676) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780072963786
- 0072963786
- 0077407512
- 9780077407513
- 0077407520
- 9780077407520
- OCLC:
- 456977618
- Online:
- View cover image provided by Mackin
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