The African-American Odyssey: Special Edition, Volume 1 (4th Edition)
ISBN: 9780205728763 | 0205728766
Edition: 5thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2011
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More than any other text,The African-American Odysseyilluminates the central place of African Americans in U.S. history - not only telling the story of what it has meant to be black in America, but also how African-American history is inseparably weaved into the greater context of American history and vice versa. Th This updated edition brings the story up to 2008 and the historic election of the first African-American President of the United States, Barack Obama. Told through a clear, direct, and flowing narrative by leading scholars in the fi... MORE
| Brief Contents | |
| Becoming African American1 | |
| Africa | p. 2 |
| Middle Passage | p. 24 |
| Black People in Colonial North America, 1526-1763 | p. 46 |
| Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle for Independence, 1763-1783 | p. 72 |
| African Americans in the New Nation, 1783-1820 | p. 94 |
| Slavery, Abolition, and the Quest for Freedom: The Coming of the Civil War, 1793-186... MORE | p. 120 |
| Life in the Cotton Kingdom | p. 122 |
| Free Black People in Antebellum America | p. 146 |
| Opposition to Slavery, 1800-18331 | p. 70 |
| Let Your Motto Be Resistance, 1833-1850 | p. 188 |
| ldquo;And Black People Were at the Heart of Itrdquo;: The United States Disunites over Slavery | p. 204 |
| The Civil War, Emancipation, and Black Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution | p. 230 |
| Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War | p. 232 |
| The Meaning of Freedom: The Promise of Reconstruction, 1865-1868 | p. 258 |
| The Meaning of Freedom: The Failure of Reconstruction | p. 284 |
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