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From slavery to freedom : a history of African Americans
Franklin, John Hope
Adult Nonfiction E185 .F825 2000

Contents	Page
Visual Features	p. xi
Preface	p. xvii
A Note to the Instructors about Supplements	p. xxi
About the Authors	p. xxiii
1 - Land of Their Ancestors	p. 1
Ghana	p. 2
Mali	p. 4
Songhay	p. 6
Other States	p. 9
2 - The African Way of Life	p. 15
Political Institutions	p. 16
Economic Life	p. 18
Social Organization	p. 20
Religion	p. 24
The Arts	p. 27
African Culture in the Diaspora	p. 30
3 - The Slave Trade and the New World	p. 33
European and Asian Interests	p. 34
Africans in the New World	p. 37
The Big Business of Slave Trading	p. 40
One-Way Passage	p. 44
Colonial Enterprise in the Caribbean	p. 50
The Plantation System	p. 51
Slavery in Mainland Latin America	p. 57
4 - Colonial Slavery	p. 64
Virginia and Maryland	p. 65
The Carolinas and Georgia	p. 69
The Middle Colonies	p. 72
Blacks in Colonial New England	p. 75
5 - That All May Be Free	p. 79
Slavery and the Revolutionary Philosophy	p. 80
Blacks Fighting for American Independence	p. 84
The Movement to Manumit Slaves	p. 91
The Conservative Reaction	p. 93
6 - Blacks in the New Republic	p. 96
The Black Population in 1790	p. 97
Slavery and the Industrial Revolution	p. 99
Trouble in the Caribbean	p. 101
The Closing of the Slave Trade	p. 104
The Search for Independence	p. 105
7 - Blacks and Manifest Destiny	p. 118
Frontier Influences	p. 119
Black Pioneers in the Westward March	p. 120
The War of 1812	p. 122
Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom	p. 125
The Domestic Slave Trade	p. 128
Persistence of the African Trade	p. 136
8 - That Peculiar Institution	p. 138
Scope and Extent	p. 139
The Slave Codes	p. 140
Plantation Scene	p. 143
Nonagricultural Pursuits	p. 150
Social Considerations	p. 151
The Slave's Reaction to Bondage	p. 158
9 - Quasi-Free Blacks	p. 167
American Anomaly	p. 168
Economic and Social Development	p. 172
The Struggle in the North and West	p. 184
Colonization	p. 187
10 - Slavery and Intersectional Strife	p. 192
The North Attacks	p. 193
Black Abolitionists	p. 199
Runaways--Overland and Underground	p. 204
The South Strikes Back	p. 210
Stress and Strain in the 1850s	p. 214
11 - Civil War	p. 220
Uncertain Federal Policy	p. 221
Moving toward Freedom	p. 228
Confederate Policy	p. 233
Blacks Fighting for the Union	p. 238
Victory!	p. 243
12 - The Effort to Attain Peace	p. 245
Reconstruction and the Nation	p. 246
Conflicting Policies	p. 249
Relief and Rehabilitation	p. 253
Economic Adjustment	p. 258
Political Currents	p. 264
13 - Losing the Peace	p. 272
The Struggle for Domination	p. 273
The Overthrow of Reconstruction	p. 277
The Movement for Disfranchisement	p. 281
The Triumph of White Supremacy	p. 286
14 - Philanthropy and Self-Help	p. 292
Northern Philanthropy and African-American Education	p. 293
The Age of Booker T. Washington	p. 299
Struggles in the Economic Sphere	p. 307
Social and Cultural Growth	p. 313
15 - The Color Line	p. 326
The New American Imperialism	p. 327
America's Empire of People of Color	p. 335
Urban Problems	p. 340
The Pattern of Violence	p. 345
New Solutions for Old Problems	p. 350
16 - In Pursuit of Democracy	p. 357
World War I	p. 358
The Enlistment of African Americans	p. 360
Service Overseas	p. 366
On the Home Front	p. 374
17 - Democracy Escapes	p. 382
The Reaction	p. 383
The Voice of Protest Rises	p. 392
18 - The Harlem Renaissance	p. 400
Socioeconomic Problems and African-American Literature	p. 401
Harlem, the Seat and Center	p. 404
The Circle Widens	p. 415
19 - The New Deal	p. 418
Depression	p. 419
Political Regeneration	p. 422
Roosevelt's "Black Cabinet"	p. 429
Government Agencies and Relief for Blacks	p. 432
Black Labor and the Unions	p. 439
20 - The American Dilemma	p. 444
Trends in Education	p. 445
Opportunities for Self-Expression	p. 455
The World of African Americans	p. 464
One World or Two?	p. 470
21 - Fighting for the Four Freedoms	p. 475
Arsenal of Democracy	p. 476
Blacks in the Service	p. 481
The Home Fires	p. 492
The United Nations and Human Welfare	p. 499
22 - African Americans in the Cold War Era	p. 505
Progress	p. 506
Reaction	p. 511
Urbanization and Its Consequences	p. 515
23 - The Black Revolution	p. 522
The Road to Revolution	p. 523
The Beginnings	p. 526
Marching for Freedom	p. 532
The Illusion of Equality	p. 538
Revolution at High Tide	p. 549
Balance Sheet of the Revolution	p. 559
24 - Reaction and Progress	p. 563
The Reagan Years	p. 564
A New Economic and Political Thrust	p. 570
The Bush Quadrennium	p. 574
Writers and Artists in Later Years	p. 580
Heard and Seen by Millions	p. 590
25 - Half Century of Change	p. 602
Stirrings	p. 603
"On the Pulse of Morning"	p. 612
Race-Based Politics	p. 614
Enlarging Educational Opportunities	p. 616
African Americans and the World	p. 619
Bibliographical Notes	p. 637
Appendixes	p. 686
Acknowledgments	p. 704
Index	p. 705

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