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From slavery to freedom : a history of African Americans
Title:
From slavery to freedom : a history of African Americans
Author:
Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009.
Edition:
Ninth edition.
Publication Information:
New York : McGraw-Hill, [2011]

©2011
Physical Description:
xxv, 710 pages : illustrations (mostly color), maps, photographs ; 26 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Ancestral Africa -- Africans and the Atlantic world -- Establishing North American slavery -- Eighteenth-century slave societies -- Give me liberty -- Building communities in the early republic -- Southern slavery -- Antebellum free Blacks -- Abolitionism in black and white -- Civil War -- The promises and pitfalls of Reconstruction -- The color line -- The era of self-help -- In pursuit of democracy -- Voices of protest -- The arts at home and abroad -- The New Deal era -- Double V for victory -- American dilemmas -- We shall overcome -- Black power -- Progress and poverty -- Perspectives on the present.
ISBN:
9780072963786
Format :
Book