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Book SynopsisFrom Slavery to Freedom remains the most revered, respected, and honored text on the market. The preeminent history of African Americans, this best-selling text charts the journey of African Americans from their origins in Africa, through slavery in the Western Hemisphere, struggles for freedom in the West Indies, Latin America, and the United States, various migrations, and the continuing quest for racial equality. Building on John Hope Franklin''s classic work, the ninth edition has been thoroughly rewritten by the award-winning scholar Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. It includes new chapters and updated information based on the most current scholarship. With a new narrative that brings intellectual depth and fresh insight to a rich array of topics, the text features greater coverage of ancestral Africa, African American women, differing expressions of protest, local community activism, black internationalism, civil rights and black power, as well as the election of our first African
Table of Contents
Franklin: From Slavery to Freedom, 10e
CHAPTER 1: Ancestral Africa, Ancient around 500 BCE to 1600
CHAPTER 2: Africans and the Atlantic World, 1492-1800
CHAPTER 3: Establishing North American Slavery, 1520s to 1720s
CHAPTER 4: Eighteenth-Century Slave Societies, 1700-1780s
CHAPTER 5: Give Me Liberty, 1763-1787
CHAPTER 6: Building Communities in the Early Republic, 1790-1830
CHAPTER 7: Southern Slavery, 1790-1860
CHAPTER 8: Antebellum Free Blacks, 1830-1860
CHAPTER 9: Abolitionism in Black and White, 1820-1860
CHAPTER 10: Civil War, 1861-1865
CHAPTER 11: The Promises and Pitfalls of Reconstruction, 1863-1877
CHAPTER 12: The Color Line, 1877-1917
CHAPTER 13: The Era of Self-Help, 1880-1916
CHAPTER 14: In Pursuit of Democracy, 1914-1919
CHAPTER 15: Voices of Protest, 1910-1928
CHAPTER 16: The Arts at Home and Abroad, 1920s to early 1930s
CHAPTER 17: The New Deal Era, 1929-1941
CHAPTER 18: Double V for Victory, 1941-1945
CHAPTER 19: American Dilemmas, 1940-1955
CHAPTER 20: We Shall Overcome, 1947-1967
CHAPTER 21: Black Power, 1955-1980
CHAPTER 22: Progress and Poverty, 1980-2000
CHAPTER 23: Perspectives on the Present, Since 2000
