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African-American Odyssey, The: Special Edition, Combined Volume
ISBN: 9780205728787 | 0205728782
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Pearson College Div
Pub. Date: 1/1/2010
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More than any other text, The African-American Odyssey illuminates 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.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 field, ... MORE
| Brief Contents | |
| Becoming African American | p. 1 |
| Africa | p. 2 |
| Middle Passage | p. 24 |
| Black People in Colonial North America, 1526ndash;1763 | p. 46 |
| Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle for Independence, 1763ndash;1783 | p. 72 |
| African Americans in the New Nation, 1783ndash;1820 | p. 94 |
| Slavery, Abolition, and the Quest for Freedom: The Coming of the C... MORE | p. 120 |
| Life in the Cotton Kingdom | p. 122 |
| Free Black People in Antebellum America | p. 146 |
| Opposition to Slavery, 1800ndash;1833 | p. 170 |
| Let Your Motto Be Resistance, 1833ndash;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, 1865ndash;1868 | p. 258 |
| The Meaning of Freedom: The Failure of Reconstruction | p. 284 |
| Searching for Safe Spaces | p. 306 |
| White Supremacy Triumphant: African Americans in the South in the Late Nineteenth Century | p. 308 |
| Black Southerners Challenge White Supremacy | p. 334 |
| Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African Americans in the Early Twentieth Century | p. 364 |
| African Americans and the 1920s | p. 400 |
| The Great Depression and World War II | p. 426 |
| The Great Depression and The New Deal | p. 428 |
| Black Culture and Society in the 1930s and 1940s | p. 454 |
| The World War II Era and Seeds of a Revolution | p. 480 |
| The Black Revolution | p. 510 |
| The Freedom Movement, 1954ndash;1965 | p. 512 |
| The Struggle Continues, 1965ndash;1980 | p. 542 |
| Black Politics, White Backlash, 1980 to | |
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