Bibliograph

Hard road to freedom, the story of African America, James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton

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Label

Hard road to freedom, the story of African America, James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-387) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hard road to freedom

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

43561552

Responsibility statement

James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton

Sub title

the story of African America

Summary

The story of African America from its African roots to the political and social upheavals at the end of the twentieth century

Table Of Contents

Africa and the Atlantic slave trade -- The evolution of slavery in British North America -- Slavery and freedom in the age of revolution -- The early republic and the rise of the cotton kingdom -- Slavery and the slave community -- Free people of color and the fight against slavery -- From militancy to Civil War -- From Reconstruction to Jim Crow -- Populism, industrial unions, and the politics of race -- The Harlem Renaissance between the wars -- Depression and war -- The postwar civil rights movement -- From civil rights to black power -- Conservatism and race in multicultural America -- Race-ing to the millennium

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