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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: | 9781544285252 |
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Publisher: | CreateSpace Publishing |
Publication date: | 03/25/2017 |
Pages: | 456 |
Product dimensions: | 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.92(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 |
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