From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans / Edition 8

by John Hope Franklin

Overview

The Eight Edition has been thoroughly revised to include expanded material on Africa, the history of African Americans in the Caribbean and Latin America, the current situation of African Americans in the United States, popular culture, and much more. It has also been redesigned with new charts, maps, photographs, paintings, illustrations, and color inserts. Written by distinguished and award-winning authors, retaining the same features that have made it the most popular text on African American History ever, and with fresh and appealing new features, From Slavery to Freedom remains the leading text on the market.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780072295818
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date:	12/28/1999
Edition description:	8TH BK&CDR
Pages:	742
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

One has to read between the lines, and is left to guess at the man within. But he has been, in the best and deepest sense of the phrase, a genuinely public-spirited citizen, urging his country to do its best by all his fellow citizens and helping his country move in that direction. If his life is indeed a mirror to America, then it is more to an America to which we should aspire than to the America we actually are.
— The Washington Post

Jonathan Yardley