| Description |
536 pages : illustrations, facsimile, maps, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes. |
| Contents |
From Africa to America -- The status of Negroes in Colonial America -- Concern for the Negro -- The revolutionary philosophy of freedom -- Uncertain trumpet -- Arms-bearers for America -- In his majesty's service -- Postwar federal action -- The early abolitionist impulse -- Emergence of the Negro vanguard -- The internal slave trade -- The pro-slavery argument -- Critical observers of slavery -- Variations in the pattern -- Control of the slave -- Slave attitudes -- The free Negro in the South -- Free Negroes of substance -- The free Negro in the North -- Adjustment and advance -- The new spirit of abolitionism -- The Negro abolitionist -- Abolition's widening influence -- Response of the northern Negro to the outbreak of war -- A war for emancipation -- The Negro serviceman -- Adjustment of the newly freed slave -- The Negro's Lincoln -- Freedom insured -- The Southern view of the freedman and the Negro response -- Reconstruction : a black page? -- Reconstruction : a National problem -- The Negro speaks and acts -- White control and Negro reactions -- Contrasting positions and a new militancy -- The nadir of race relations -- Organized response -- Political impotence -- The Negro at home and war -- Urbanization and race violence -- Flood tide of racism -- The Negro renaissance -- The Negro and the New Deal -- Discrimination in the thirties and forties -- The Truman administration -- Separate is not equal. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- History -- Sources.
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| Added Author |
Quarles, Benjamin, author.
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