Descript |
xvi, 638, 71, 42 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm. |
Contents |
pt. 1. The African American experience in global perspective : prelude to a new world. ch. 1. Before the Atlantic crossing -- ch. 2. The transatlantic trade, the plantation system, and Black labor -- pt. 2. Enslavement, revolution, and the new republic, 1619-1820. ch. 3. Transition to African labor -- ch. 4. Responses to bondage -- ch. 5. African Americans and the American Revolution -- ch. 6. Race, republicanism, and the limits of democracy -- pt. 3. The antebellum era, expansion of cotton culture, and civil war, 1820-1865. ch. 7. Under the lash : migration, work, and social conditions -- ch. 8. Community, culture, and resistance -- ch. 9. Free Blacks, abolitionists, and the antislavery movement -- ch. 10. The Civil War and the struggle for freedom -- pt. 4. Emancipation and the first generation of freedom, 1865-1915. ch. 11. The politics of emancipation : winning and losing the franchise -- ch. 12. Economic emancipation, land, and the search for inductrial opportunities -- ch. 13. Freedom, social conditions, and the rise of Jim Crow -- ch. 14. Emancipation, Jim Crow, and new forms of community and social activism -- pt. 5. Migration, depression, and World Wars, 1915-1945. ch. 15. The great migration -- ch. 16. Rise of the "New Negro" -- ch. 17. The old deal continues -- ch. 18. Emergence of a New Deal? -- ch. 19. World War II -- pt. 6. Civil rights, Black power, and deindustrialization, 1945-2000. ch. 20. The modern civil rights movement -- ch. 21. The civil rights struggle in the urban North and West -- ch. 22. The Black power movement -- ch. 23. Redefining the boundaries of Black culture and politics. |
ISBN |
9780395756546 |
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0395756545 (complete ed.) |
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