From slavery to freedom : a history of Negro Americans John Hope Franklin, Alfred A. Moss , Jr

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009.

Contributor:

Moss, Alfred A., 1943-

Series:

Borzoi book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History.

African Americans.

Slavery--United States--History.

Slavery.

Physical Description:

xxii, 581 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Edition:

Sixth Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Knopf, 1988.

Summary:

Takes full cognizance of the growing diversity and complexity of problems facing black Americans along with the recent escalation of scholarly research.

Contents:

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 ; The transplantation of African culture

3. The slave trade and the New World. European and Asian interests ; 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 ; Negroes in Colonial New England

5. That all may be free. Slavery and the Revolutionary philosophy ; Negroes fighting for American independence ; The movement to manumit Slaves ; The conservative reaction

6. THe turn of the century. The Negro population in 1790 ; Slavery and the Industrial Revolution ; Trouble in the Caribbean ; The closing of the slave trade ; The search for independence

7. The westward march. Frontier influences ; Negro 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

9. Quasi-Free Negroes. American anomaly ; Economic and social development ; The struggle in the North and West ; Colonization

10. Slavery and intersectional strife. The North attacks ; Black abolitionists ; The Underground Railroad ; The South strikes back ; Stress and strain in the fifties

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-531) and index.

Local Notes:

Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection

Other Format:

Online version: Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009. From slavery to freedom.

ISBN:

039456362X

9780394563626

0394370139

9780394370132

9780075540410

007554041X

OCLC:

15550175