From Slavery to Freedom
A History of African Americans
by John Hope Franklin, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
10th Edition
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780073513348 |
| eText ISBN | 9781265249762 |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill Higher Education |
| Publishing Year | 2020 |
| Edition | 10th Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 1854 |
From Slavery to Freedom, 10th Edition, is an academic textbook that examines the broad historical experience of African Americans. The volume provides higher education instructors and students with a structured narrative of political, social, and cultural developments from early African roots to modern struggles for racial equality.
The thematic coverage moves from early African societies through the Atlantic slave trade and the establishment of North American slavery. It traces antebellum community building, abolitionist movements, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. The text further tracks the rise of Jim Crow, twentieth-century protest voices, the civil rights and Black Power movements, and the 2008 election of the first African American U.S. president.
First published in 1947, this textbook provides an established foundation for survey courses in United States history and specialized African American studies. The structure supports both introductory learning and detailed thematic analysis across academic terms.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Ancestral Africa (circa 500 b.c.e – 1600)
Chapter 2: Africans in the Atlantic World (1471–1800)
Chapter 3: Establishing North American Slavery (1528–1750)
Chapter 4: Enslavement in Eighteenth-Century America (1700–1775)
Chapter 5: Give Me Liberty (1763–1788)
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: Promises and Pitfalls of Reconstruction (1863–1877)
Chapter 12: The Color Line (1877–1917)
Chapter 13: The Era of Self-Help (1880–1922)
Chapter 14: In Pursuit of Democracy (1914–1919)
Chapter 15: Voices of Protest (1910–1928)
Chapter 16: The Arts at Home and Abroad (1920–1938)
Chapter 17: The New Deal Era (1929–1945)
Chapter 18: Double V for Victory (1941–1945)
Chapter 19: American Dilemmas (1935–1955)
Chapter 20: We Shall Overcome (1947–1968)
Chapter 21: Black Power (1955–1980)
Chapter 22: Progress and Poverty (1980–2000)
Chapter 23: The Zigzag of History (since 2000)
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