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The African-American Odyssey Combined Edition

by: Hine, Darlene Clark; Hine, William C.; Harrold, Stanley

The African-American Odyssey Combined Edition

by: Hine, Darlene Clark; Hine, William C.; Harrold, Stanley

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9780130977960
ISBN 10:
0130977969
Edition: 2nd
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 03/08/2002
Publisher: Pearson Higher Education
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Summary

This book is the first comprehensive survey of the African-American experience. It draws on recent research to present black history in a clear and direct manner, within a broad social, cultural, and political framework. Life in sixteenth-century Africa, the antislavery movement, The Civil War, the building of black community institutions, the equal rights movement, and African-American military service. For anyone who is interested in an in-depth exploration of African-American history as it relates to U.S. history.

Author Biography

Darlene Clark Hine is John A. Hannah Professor of American History at Michigan State University and President of the Organization of American Historians (20012002). Hire received her BA at Roosevelt University in Chicago, and her MA and Ph.D. from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. Hire has taught at South Carolina State University and at Purdue University. In 2000-2001 she was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She is the author and/or editor of fifteen books, most recently The Harvard Guide to African American History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000) coedited with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Leon Litwack. She coedited a two volume set with Earnestine Jerkins, A Question of Manhood: A Reader in Black Men's History and Masculinity (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999, 2001); and with Jacqueline McLeod, Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000pk). With Kathleen Thompson she wrote A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America (New York: Broadway Books, 1998), and edited with Barry Gaspar, More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996). She won the Dartmouth Medal of the American Library Association for the reference volumes coedited with Elsa Barkley Brown and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (New York: Carlson Publishing, 1993). She is the author of Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989). Her forthcoming book is entitled Black Professional Class and Race Consciousness: Physicians, Nurses, Lawyers, and the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement, 1890-1955. She is president-elect of the Southern Historical Association (2002-2003) .

William C. Hine received his undergraduate education at Bowling Green State University, his master's degree at the University of Wyoming, and his Ph.D. at Kent State University. He is a professor of history at South Carolina State University. He has had articles published in several journals, including Agricultural History, Labor History, and the Journal of Southern History. He is currently writing a history of South Carolina State University.

Stanley Harrold, Professor of History at South Carolina State University, received his bachelor's degree from Allegheny College and his master's and Ph.D. degrees from Kent State University. He is coeditor of Southern Dissent, a book series published by the University Press of Florida. He received during the 1990s two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships to pursue research dealing with the antislavery movement. Professor Harrold is a historian of nineteenth-century American reform. His books include: Gamaliel Bailey and Antislavery Union (1986), The Abolitionists and the South (1995), Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America (co-edited with John R. McKivigan, 1999) and American Abolitionists (2001). He has published articles in Civil War History, Journal of Southern History, Radical History Review, and Journal of the Early Republic. His most recent book, Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865, will be published in 2002.

PART I Becoming African American

(119)

Africa

(22)

Middle Passage

(22)

Black People in Colonial North America, 1526--1763

(26)

Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle for Independence, 1763--1783

(22)

African Americans in the New Nation, 1783--1820

(26)

PART II Slavery, Abolition, and the Quest for Freedom: The Coming of the Civil War, 1793--1861

120

(110)

Life in the Cotton Kingdom

122

(24)

Free Black People in Antebellum America

146

(24)

Opposition to Slavery, 1800--1833

170

(18)

Let Your Motto Be Resistance, 1833--1850

188

(16)

``And Black People Were at the Heart of It'': The United States Disunites over Slavery

204

(26)

PART III The Civil War, Emancipation, and Black Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution

230

(76)

Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War

232

(26)

The Meaning of Freedom: The Promise of Reconstruction, 1865--1868

258

(26)

The Meaning of Freedom: The Failure of Reconstruction

284

(22)

PART IV Searching for Safe Spaces

306

(120)

White Supremacy Triumphant: African Americans in the South in the Late Nineteenth Century

308

(26)

Black Southerners Challenge White Supremacy

334

(30)

Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African Americans in the Early Twentieth Century

364

(36)

African Americans and the 1920s

400

(26)

PART V The Great Depression and World War II

426

(84)

The Great Depression and The New Deal

428

(26)

Black Culture and Society in the 1930s and 1940s

454

(26)

The World War II Era and Seeds of a Revolution

480

(30)

PART VI The Black Revolution

510

(98)

The Freedom Movement, 1954--1965

512

(30)

The Struggle Continues, 1965--1980

542

(34)

Modern Black America, 1980 to Present

576

(32)

Epilogue: ``A Nation Within a Nation''

608

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