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African American Lives The Struggle for Freedom, Volume I

by: Carson, Clayborne; Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J.; Nash, Gary B.

African American Lives The Struggle for Freedom, Volume I

by: Carson, Clayborne; Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J.; Nash, Gary B.

ISBN 13:
9780201794878
ISBN 10:
020179487X
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 11/05/2004
Publisher: Pearson

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Summary

African American Lives: the Struggle for Freedom uses a unique biographical approach to present the history of African Americans as active and thoughtful agents in the construction of their lives and communities. The text places African American lives and stories at the center of the narrative and as the basis of historical analysis. Each chapter opens with a vignette focusing on an individual involved in a dramatic moment or event. Personal stories are told throughout the narrative, as the lives and experiences of individuals provide the lens through which the story of African American history is viewed.

Timeline

First Person Documents

Preface

xvii

Meet the Authors

xxiii

Ancient Africa

(24)

African Storytelling and African American History

(23)

From Human Beginnings to the Rise of Egypt

(5)

The Spread of Islam

(2)

The Emergence of West African Kingdoms

(6)

Central African Kingdoms

(1)

African Culture

First Person Leo Africanus Describes Timbuktu

(3)

First Person Legend of King Sundiata's Triumph over the Ghanaian King

(2)

First Person Praise-chant for Ogun, Deity of War and Iron

(4)

First Person African Proverbs

(5)

Africa and the Atlantic World

(24)

King Nomimansa Meets Diego Gomes

(23)

Africa and Europe: The Fateful Connection

(3)

Africa and the Rising Atlantic World

(7)

The Trauma of Enslavement

(7)

Early Africans in North America

First Person A Portugese Courtier Describes Enslaved Africans

(8)

First Person Olaudah Equiano Recalls His Enslavement

(1)

First Person Slave Ship Captain Explains Bargaining for Slaves

(2)

First Person A Slave Ship Surgeon Describes the Middle Passage

(2)

First Person Ottobah Cugoano Describes a Mid-Atlantic Slave Mutiny

(6)

Africans in Early North America, 1619--1726

(24)

Anthony Johnson and His Family in the Early Chesapeake

(23)

The First Africans in English North America

(5)

The Fateful Transition

(2)

Defining Slavery, Defining Race

(5)

Slavery and Race North of the Chesapeake

(2)

Beyond English Boundaries

First Person Francis Payne Leaves a Will

(6)

First Person Lament of a Convict Laborer in Virginia

(2)

First Person A White Virginian Defines Slavery

(5)

First Person The First Antislavery Protest

(6)

Africans in Bondage: Early Eighteenth Century to the American Revolution

(28)

Venture Smith Defies the Colonial Slave System

(27)

Colonial Slavery at High Tide

(6)

Negotiated Bondage

(5)

Afro-Floridians and Afro-Louisianans

(2)

Becoming African American

(7)

Black Americans on the Eve of the American Revolution

First Person Petitioning Boston Slaves Lament Family Life

(10)

First Person Redeeming Sin: A Black Christian's Account

(2)

First Person The Character of Job Ben Solomon

(3)

First Person Venture Smith Tells of Early Freedom

(3)

The Revolutionary Era: Crossroads of Freedom

102

(26)

Thomas Peters Seizes His Freedom

103

(25)

British ``Tyranny'' and a Cry for Freedom

105

(3)

African Americans and the American Revolution

108

(6)

Rhetoric and Reality in the New Nation

114

(5)

The Constitutional Settlement

119

(5)

The Resettlement of African American Loyalists

124

First Person Lemuel Haynes Calls for Universal Liberty

108

(3)

First Person Boston King Describes the End of the War for Black Loyalists

111

(3)

First Person Jehu Grant Fights for the Patriot Cause

114

(2)

First Person Belinda Petitions for a Small Pension

116

(5)

First Person Benjamin Banneker Chides Thomas Jefferson

121

(7)

After the Revolution: Constructing Free Life and Combating Slavery, 1787--1816

128

(30)

Richard Allen and Absalom Jones Lead Church Walkout

129

(29)

The Emergence of Free Black Communities

131

(6)

``Under Our Vine and Fig Tree''

137

(4)

Black Revolution in Haiti

141

(4)

The Spread of Slavery

145

(3)

Slave Resistance

148

(3)

Black Identity in the New Nation

151

First Person Benjamin T. Tanner Recalls How Early Black Churches Offended White People

138

(7)

First Person New Orleans Freemen Seek Assurances from Louisiana's New Rulers

145

(1)

First Person A Black Minister Celebrates the End of the Slave Trade

146

(3)

First Person A Virginia Slave Explains Gabriel's Rebellion

149

(5)

First Person A Black Sailmaker Lectures White Citizens

154

(4)

African Americans in the Antebellum Era

158

(28)

James Forten on Repatriation to Africa

159

(27)

Black Religion in the Antebellum Era

161

(2)

The Expansion of Slavery

163

(6)

Slave Life and Labor

169

(8)

Resistance and Rebellion

177

(6)

Free Black Organizing

183

First Person Jarena Lee Preaches to the Downtrodden

164

(6)

First Person Solomon Northup Describes a New Orleans Slave Auction

170

(3)

First Person William Wells Brown Recalls Slaves Sent to Lower South

173

(7)

First Person David Walker Exhorts Black Americans to Rise Against Their Oppressors

180

(2)

First Person Nat Turner Tells of His Vision to Strike Against Slavery

182

(4)

African Americans in the Reform Era, 1831--1850

186

(28)

James Forten Advocates an Immediate End to Slavery

187

(27)

Black Americans in an Expanding Nation

189

(7)

Black Americans and Reform

196

(5)

The Abolitionist Movement

201

(9)

Limitations and Opportunities

210

First Person Maria Stewart Challenges Her Audiences

198

(2)

First Person Daniel Payne Abhors Slavery's Brutalization

200

(2)

First Person William Lloyd Garrison Dreams of a Colorblind Society

202

(2)

First Person James Curry Refuses to Be Whipped

204

(4)

First Person Henry Highland Garnet's Call to ``Strike the Blow''

208

(6)

A Prelude to War: The 1850s

214

(26)

Tragedy and Triumph at Christiana

215

(25)

The Controversy over the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

216

(4)

The Power of Stories

220

(6)

The Changing South

226

(4)

Black Exiles Abroad and at Home

230

(3)

Sectional Crisis

233

First Person Jermain Loguen Defies the Fugitive Slave Act

219

(3)

First Person Solomon Northup Decries Planter's Cruelty

222

(6)

First Person A Plea from James Phillips

228

(4)

First Person Mary Ann Shadd Considers Emigration

232

(2)

First Person Frederick Douglass Reflects on ``Bleeding Kansas''

234

(6)

Civil War and the Promises of Freedom: The Turbulent 1860s

240

(28)

Martin Delany Becomes First Black U.S. Army Major

241

(27)

``A White Man's War''

243

(3)

War and Freedom

246

(4)

Emancipation as Military and Political Strategy

250

(3)

``Men of Color: To Arms!''

253

(3)

1863: The Tide Turns

256

(4)

An Incomplete Victory

260

First Person A Slave Remembers Choosing Freedom

249

(7)

First Person A Black Soldier Petitions for Equal Pay

256

(1)

First Person Joseph Miller Describes Camp Life

257

(4)

First Person Henry Highland Garnet Demands the Vote

261

(2)

First Person Two Views of the Freedmen's Bureau

263

(5)

Post-Civil War Reconstruction: A New National Era

268

Emanuel Fortune Testifies Before Congress

269

Postwar Reconstruction

271

(5)

Elected Black Leaders

276

(8)

Washington, DC, in the New National Era

284

(3)

The End of Reconstruction

287

(1)

African Americans on the Move

288

First Person Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Proposes Women's Leadership

277

(4)

First Person Madison Hemings Recalls His Family History

281

(4)

First Person The New National Era Reports on Washington Social Life

285

(3)

First Person Simon Smith Laments the End of Hope

288

(2)

First Person John E. Bruce Promotes Africa

290

Appendices

(1)

Photo Credits

(1)

Index

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African American Lives The Struggle for Freedom, Volume I

African American Lives The Struggle for Freedom, Volume I

9780201794878

020179487X

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