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From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans.
GIC Collection at Penn Libraries
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Area Studies: American Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Area Studies: American Studies.
- Edition:
- Eighth edition.
- Summary:
- Since its initial publication more than fifty years ago, From Slavery to Freedom has remained the preeminent history of African Americans. This eighth edition has been revised to reflect new scholarship and developments in the African-American community, to include increased attention to African-American women and culture, and to feature a new final chapter extending coverage through the close of the twentieth century. Authors John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss continue to provide the most compelling and comprehensive account of the African-American experience available.
- Contents:
- 1 Land of Their Ancestors 1
- Ghana 2
- Mali 4
- Songhay 6
- Other States 9
- 2 The African Way of Life 15
- Political Institutions 16
- Economic Life 18
- Social Organization 20
- Religion 24
- The Arts 27
- African Culture in the Diaspora 30
- 3 The Slave Trade and the New World 33
- European and Asian Interests 34
- Africans in the New World 37
- The Big Business of Slave Trading 40
- One-Way Passage 44
- Colonial Enterprise in the Caribbean 50
- The Plantation System 51
- Slavery in Mainland Latin America 57
- 4 Colonial Slavery 64
- Virginia and Maryland 65
- The Carolinas and Georgia 69
- The Middle Colonies 72
- Blacks in Colonial New England 75
- 5 That All May Be Free 79
- Slavery and the Revolutionary Philosophy 80
- Blacks Fighting for American Independence 84
- The Movement to Manumit Slaves 91
- The Conservative Reaction 93
- 6 Blacks in the New Republic 96
- The Black Population in 1790 97
- Slavery and the Industrial Revolution 99
- Trouble in the Caribbean 101
- The Closing of the Slave Trade 104
- The Search for Independence 105
- 7 Blacks and Manifest Destiny 118
- Frontier Influences 119
- Black Pioneers in the Westward March 120
- The War of 1812 122
- Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom 125
- The Domestic Slave Trade 128
- Persistence of the African Trade 136
- 8 That Peculiar Institution 138
- Scope and Extent 139
- The Slave Codes 140
- Plantation Scene 143
- Nonagricultural Pursuits 150
- Social Considerations 151
- The Slave's Reaction to Bondage 158
- 9 Quasi-Free Blacks 167
- American Anomaly 168
- Economic and Social Development 172
- The Struggle in the North and West 184
- Colonization 187
- 10 Slavery and Intersectional Strife 192
- The North Attacks 193
- Black Abolitionists 199
- Runaways-Overland and Underground 204
- The South Strikes Back 210
- Stress and Strain in the 1850s 214
- 11 Civil War 220
- Uncertain Federal Policy 221
- Moving toward Freedom 228
- Confederate Policy 233
- Blacks Fighting for the Union 238
- Victory! 243
- 12 The Effort to Attain Peace 245
- Reconstruction and the Nation 246
- Conflicting Policies 249
- Relief and Rehabilitation 253
- Economic Adjustment 258
- Political Currents 264
- 13 Losing the Peace 272
- The Struggle for Domination 273
- The Overthrow of Reconstruction 277
- The Movement for Disfranchisement 281
- The Triumph of White Supremacy 286
- 14 Philanthropy and Self-Help 292
- Northern Philanthropy and African-American Education 293
- The Age of Booker T. Washington 299
- Struggles in the Economic Sphere 307
- Social and Cultural Growth 313
- 15 The Color Line 326
- The New American Imperialism 327
- America's Empire of People of Color 335
- Urban Problems 340
- The Pattern of Violence 345
- New Solutions for Old Problems 350
- 16 In Pursuit of Democracy 357
- World War I 358
- The Enlistment of African Americans 360
- Service Overseas 366
- On the Home Front 374
- 17 Democracy Escapes 382
- The Reaction 383
- The Voice of Protest Rises 392
- 18 The Harlem Renaissance 400
- Socioeconomic Problems and African-American Literature 401
- Harlem, the Seat and Center 404
- The Circle Widens 415
- 19 The New Deal 418
- Depression 419
- Political Regeneration 422
- Roosevelt's "Black Cabinet" 429
- Government Agencies and Relief for Blacks 432
- Black Labor and the Unions 439
- 20 The American Dilemma 444
- Trends in Education 445
- Opportunities for Self-Expression 455
- The World of African Americans 464
- One World or Two? 470
- 21 Fighting for the Four Freedoms 475
- Arsenal of Democracy 476
- Blacks in the Service 481
- The Home Fires 492
- The United Nations and Human Welfare 499
- 22 African Americans in the Cold War Era 505
- Progress 506
- Reaction 511
- Urbanization and Its Consequences 515
- 23 The Black Revolution 522
- The Road to Revolution 523
- The Beginnings 526
- Marching for Freedom 532
- The Illusion of Equality 538
- Revolution at High Tide 549
- Balance Sheet of the Revolution 559
- 24 Reaction and Progress 563
- The Reagan Years 564
- A New Economic and Political Thrust 570
- The Bush Quadrennium 574
- Writers and Artists in Later Years 580
- Heard and Seen by Millions 590
- 25 Half Century of Change 602
- Stirrings 603
- "On the Pulse of Morning" 612
- Race-Based Politics 614
- Enlarging Educational Opportunities 616
- African Americans and the World 619.
- ISBN:
- 9780072295818
- 0072295813
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