From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African AmericansSince its original publication in 1947, From Slavery to Freedom has maintained its preeminence as the most authoritative history of African Americans. Surveying a vast human odyssey of more than a thousand years, co-authors John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss, Jr., vividly detail the journey of African Americans from their origin in the civilizations of Africa, through slavery in the Western Hemisphere, to the successful struggle for freedom in the West Indies, Latin America, and the United States. This seventh edition has been thoroughly revised to include expanded coverage of Africa, additional material on the situation of African Americans in the United States, and two new four-page color inserts. The authors discuss the history of blacks in the Caribbean and Latin America as it relates to the history of African Americans in the United States. Incorporating recent scholarship, chapters covering slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction have been rewritten. Material covering the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century has been expanded. The period between World War I and World War II (including the Harlem Renaissance) has also been extensively revised to reflect new scholarship and new interpretations. In keeping with the authors' view that this is a history of all the people, there has been a significant increase in material dealing with popular culture. All who are interested in the current quest for equality of African Americans will find a wealth of information based on recent findings and from many scholars. Professors Franklin and Moss have captured the tragedies and triumphs, the hurts and joys, the failures and successes, of blacks in a lively and readable style. |
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... West Indies between 1784 and 1787 , some 19,964 were reexported ; but it is not possible to determine whether they went to French , Spanish , or Portuguese markets , to other British islands , or to the mainland . As the prosperity of the ...
... West Indies between 1784 and 1787 , some 19,964 were reexported ; but it is not possible to determine whether they went to French , Spanish , or Portuguese markets , to other British islands , or to the mainland . As the prosperity of the ...
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... West Indies and in Canada . Some of those in the West Indies , however , had been sold into slavery . Many blacks entered the war on the side of America expecting to secure their freedom . Some did , but others were actually sent back ...
... West Indies and in Canada . Some of those in the West Indies , however , had been sold into slavery . Many blacks entered the war on the side of America expecting to secure their freedom . Some did , but others were actually sent back ...
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... Western Freedmen's Aid Commission , 201 Western Reserve College , 175 West Indies . See Caribbean islands West Virginia , black population of : 1920 , 344 ( table ) ; 1920 and 1950 , 520 ( table ) ; 1940 and 1990 , 562 ( table ) West ...
... Western Freedmen's Aid Commission , 201 Western Reserve College , 175 West Indies . See Caribbean islands West Virginia , black population of : 1920 , 344 ( table ) ; 1920 and 1950 , 520 ( table ) ; 1940 and 1990 , 562 ( table ) West ...
Contents
Land of Their Ancestors | 1 |
Olaudah Equiano Gustavus Vassa Describes His Homeland1756 | 9 |
The African Way of Life | 12 |
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