Synopses & Reviews
The Eight Edition has been thoroughly revised to include expanded material on Africa, the history of African Americans in the Caribbean and Latin America, the current situation of African Americans in the United States, popular culture, and much more. It has also been redesigned with new charts, maps, photographs, paintings, illustrations, and color inserts. Written by distinguished and award-winning authors, retaining the same features that have made it the most popular text on African American History ever, and with fresh and appealing new features, From Slavery to Freedom remains the leading text on the market.
Synopsis
The Eight Edition has been thoroughly revised to include expanded material on Africa, the history of African Americans in the Caribbean and Latin America, the current situation of African Americans in the United States, popular culture, and much more. It has also been redesigned with new charts, maps, photographs, paintings, illustrations, and color inserts. Written by distinguished and award-winning authors, retaining the same features that have made it the most popular text on African American History ever, and with fresh and appealing new features, From Slavery to Freedom remains the leading text on the market.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Land of Their AncestorsGhanaMaliSonghayOther StatesChapter Two: The African Way of LifePolitical InstitutionsEconomic LifeSocial OrganizationReligionThe ArtsAfrican Culture in the DiasporaChapter Three: The Slave Trade and the New WorldEuropean and Asian InterestsAfricans in the New WorldThe Big Business of Slave TradingOne-Way PassageColonial Enterprise in the CaribbeanThe Plantation SystemSlavery in Mainland Latin AmericaChapter Four: Colonial SlaveryVirginia and MarylandThe Carolinas and GeorgiaThe Middle ColoniesBlacks in Colonial New EnglandChapter Five: That All May Be FreeSlavery and the Revolutionary PhilosophyBlacks Fighting for American IndependenceThe Movement to Manumit SlavesThe Conservative ReactionChapter Six: Blacks in the New RepublicThe Black Population in 1790Slavery and the Industrial RevolutionTrouble in the CaribbeanThe Closing of the Slave TradeThe Search for IndependenceChapter Seven: Blacks and Manifest DestinyFrontier InfluencesBlack Pioneers in the Westward MarchThe War of 1812Emergence of the Cotton KingdomThe Domestic Slave TradePersistence of the African TradeChapter Eight: That Peculiar InstitutionScope and ExtentThe Slave CodesPlantation SceneNonagricultural PursuitsSocial ConsiderationsThe Slave's Reaction to BondageChapter Nine: Quasi-Free BlacksAmerican AnomalyEconomic and Social DevelopmentThe Struggle in the North and WestColonizationChapter Ten: Slavery and Intersectional StrifeThe North AttacksBlack AbolitionistsRunaways - Overland and UndergroundThe South Strikes BackStress and Strain in the 1850sChapter Eleven: Civil WarUncertain Federal PolicyMoving Toward FreedomConfederate PolicyBlacks Fighting for the UnionVictory!Chapter Twelve: The Effort to Attain PeaceReconstruction and the NationConflicting PoliciesRelief and RehabilitationEconomic AdjustmentPolitical CurrentsChapter Thirteen: Losing the PeaceThe Struggle for DominationThe Overthrow of ReconstructionThe Movement of DisenfranchisementThe Triumph of White Supremacy