From slavery to freedom : a history of African Americans

Abstract

The land of their ancestors - Ghana, Mali, Songhay, other states the African way of life - political institutions, economic life, social organization, religion, the arts, the transplantation of African culture the slave trade and the new world - European and Asian interests, Africa 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 colonial slavery - Virginia and Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia, the middle colonies, blacks in colonial New England that all may be free - slavery and the revolutionary philosophy, blacks fighting for American independence, the movement to Manumit slaves, the conservative reaction blacks in the new republic -the population in 1790, slavery and the industrial revolution, trouble in the Caribbean, the closing of the slave trade, the search for independence blacks and manifest destiny -frontier influences, pioneers in westward march, the war of 1812, emergence of the cotton kingdom, the domestic slave trade, persistence of the African trade the peculiar institution - scope and extent, the slave codes, plantation scene, non-agricultural pursuits, social considerations, the slave's reaction to bondage quasi-free blacks - American anomaly, economic and social development, the struggle in the north and west, colonization slavery and intersectional strife - the north attacks, abolitionists, the underground railroad, the south strikes back, stress and strain in the fifties civil war - uncertain federal policy, moving toward freedom, confederate policy, blacks fighting for the union, victory! the effort to attain peace -reconstruction and the nation, conflicting policies, relief and rehabilitation, economic adjustment, political currents losing the peace - the struggle for domination, the overthrow of reconstruction, the movement for disenfranchisement, the triumph of white supremacy philanthropy and self-help - northern philanthropy and African-American education, the age of Booker T. Washington, struggles in the economic sphere, social and cultural growth the colour line - the new American imperialism, America's empire of darker peoples, urban problems, the pattern of violence, new solutions for old problems in pursuit of democracy - World War I, the enlistment of African-Americans, service overseas, on the home front democracy escapes - the reaction, the voice of protest rises the Harlem renaissance and the politics of African-American culture - socioeconomic problems and African-American literature, Harlem, the seat and the centre, the circle widens the new deal - depression, political regeneration, Roosevelt's black cabinet, government agencies and negro relief for blacks, labour and the unions the American dilemma - trends in education, opportunities for self-expression, the world of African-Americans, one world or two? (Part contents)

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