The African-American odyssey
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The African-American odyssey
Prentice Hall, c2003
2nd ed
- v. 1: to 1877
- v. 2: since 1863
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Description and Table of Contents
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v. 1: to 1877 ISBN 9780130977946
Description
For one/two-semester, undergraduate courses in African-American History, African-American Studies, and United States History.
Written by leading scholars, The African-American Odyssey is a clear and comprehensive narrative of African-American history, from its African roots to the 21st century. This text places African-American history at the center, and in the context, of American History. Biographical profiles, documents, art, a Living Word CD, and the Companion Website dramatize the narrative and illuminate key personalities, events, and issues that shaped African-American history.
Table of Contents
PART I. BECOMING AFRICAN AMERICAN.
1. Africa.
2. Middle Passage.
3. Black People in Colonial North America, 1526-1763.
4. Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle for Independence, 1763-1783.
5. African Americans in the New Nation, 1783-1820.
PART II. SLAVERY, ABOLITION, AND THE QUEST FOR FREEDOM: THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1793-1861.
6. Life in the Cotton Kingdom.
7. Free Black People in Antebellum America.
8. Opposition to Slavery, 1800-1833.
9. Let Your Motto Be Resistance, 1833-1850.
10. "And Black People Were at the Heart of It": The United States Disunites Over Slavery.
PART III. THE CIVIL WAR, EMANCIPATION, AND BLACK RECONSTRUCTION: THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
11. Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War.
12. The Meaning of Freedom: The Promise of Reconstruction, 1865-1868.
13. The Meaning of Freedom: The Failure of Reconstruction.
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v. 2: since 1863 ISBN 9780130977953
Description
For one/two-semester, undergraduate courses in African-American History, African-American Studies, and United States History.
Written by leading scholars, The African-American Odyssey is a clear and comprehensive narrative of African-American history, from its African roots to the 21st century. This text places African-American history at the center, and in the context, of American History. Biographical profiles, documents, art, a Living Word CD, and the Companion Website dramatize the narrative and illuminate key personalities, events, and issues that shaped African-American history.
Table of Contents
12. The Meaning of Freedom: The Promise of Reconstruction, 1865-1868.
13. The Meaning of Freedom: The Failure of Reconstruction.
PART IV. SEARCHING FOR SAFE SPACES.
14. White Supremacy Triumphant: African Americans in the South in the Late Nineteenth Century.
15. Black Southerners Challenge White Supremacy.
16. Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African Americans in the Early Twentieth Century.
17. African Americans and the 1920s.
PART V. THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND WORLD WAR II.
18. The Great Depression and the New Deal.
19. Black Culture and Society in the 1930s and 1940s.
20. The World War II Era and Seeds of a Revolution.
PART VI. THE BLACK REVOLUTION.
21. The Freedom Movement, 1954-1965.
22. The Struggle Continues, 1965-1980.
23. Modern Black America, 1980 to the Present.
Epilogue: "A Nation within a Nation."
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