A Social History of the American Negro

by Benjamin Griffith Brawley

Overview

Definitive, scrupulously documented work by a distinguished black historian traces the history of African-Americans from the years of pre-colonial exploration through the turbulent period of slavery, rebellion, 'emancipation,' and the halting social progress of the early 20th century. Of immense value to students and teachers of American history and all those concerned with the long and difficult struggle for racial equality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596055643
Publisher:	Cosimo Classics
Publication date:	12/01/2005
Series:	Cosimo Classics History
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.98(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter I	The Coming of Negroes to America	1
1.	African Origins	1
2.	The Negro in Spanish Exploration	3
3.	Development of the Slave-Trade	6
4.	Planting of Slavery in the Colonies	9
5.	The Wake of the Slave-Ship	17
Chapter II	The Negro in the Colonies	21
1.	Servitude and Slavery	21
2.	The Indian, the Mulatto, and the Free Negro	26
3.	First Effort toward Social Betterment	32
4.	Early Insurrections	39
Chapter III	The Revolutionary Era	48
1.	Sentiment in England and America	48
2.	The Negro in the War	52
3.	The Northwest Territory and the Constitution	56
4.	Early Steps toward Abolition	59
5.	Beginning of Racial Consciousness	66
Chapter IV	The New West, the South, and the West Indies	76
1.	The Cotton-Gin, the New Southwest, and the First Fugitive Slave Law	77
2.	Toussaint L'Ouverture, Louisiana, and the Formal Closing of the Slave-Trade	80
3.	Gabriel's Insurrection and the Rise of the Negro Problem	86
Chapter V	Indian and Negro	91
1.	Creek, Seminole, and Negro to 1817: The War of 1812	91
2.	First Seminole War and the Treaties of Indian Spring and Fort Moultrie	95
3.	From the Treaty of Fort Moultrie to the Treaty of Payne's Landing	99
4.	Osceola and the Second Seminole War	107
Chapter VI	Early Approach to the Negro Problem	116
1.	The Ultimate Problem and the Missouri Compromise	116
2.	Colonization	120
3.	Slavery	127
Chapter VII	The Negro Reply--I: Revolt	132
1.	Denmark Vesey's Insurrection	132
2.	Nat Turner's Insurrection	140
3.	The Amistad and Creole Cases	148
Chapter VIII	The Negro Reply--II: Organization and Agitation	155
1.	Walker's "Appeal"	155
2.	The Convention Movement	159
3.	Sojourner Truth and Woman Suffrage	167
Chapter IX	Liberia	172
1.	The Place and the People	173
2.	History	174
(a)	Colonization and Settlement	174
(b)	The Commonwealth of Liberia	188
(c)	The Republic of Liberia	191
3.	International Relations	202
4.	Economic and Social Conditions	207
Chapter X	The Negro a National Issue	213
1.	Current Tendencies	213
2.	The Challenge of the Abolitionists	219
3.	The Contest	227
Chapter XI	Social Progress, 1820-1860	238
Chapter XII	The Civil War and Emancipation	252
Chapter XIII	The Era of Enfranchisement	262
1.	The Problem	262
2.	Meeting the Problem	264
3.	Reaction: The Ku-Klux Klan	272
4.	Counter-Reaction: The Negro Exodus	278
5.	A Postscript on the War and Reconstruction	281
Chapter XIV	The Negro in the New South	287
1.	Political Life: Disfranchisement	287
2.	Economic Life: Peonage	291
3.	Social Life: Proscription, Lynching	294
Chapter XV	"The Vale of Tears," 1890-1910	297
1.	Current Opinion and Tendencies	297
2.	Industrial Education: Booker T. Washington	303
3.	Individual Achievement: The Spanish-American War	307
4.	Mob Violence; Election Troubles; The Atlanta Massacre	310
5.	The Question of Labor	320
6.	Defamation; Brownsville	325
7.	The Dawn of a To-morrow	335
Chapter XVI	The Negro in the New Age	341
1.	Character of the Period	341
2.	Migration; East St. Louis	345
3.	The Great War	350
4.	High Tension: Washington, Chicago, Elaine	355
5.	The Widening Problem	365
Chapter XVII	The Negro Problem	372
1.	World Aspect	375
2.	The Negro in American Life	379
3.	Face to Face	386