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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Roots of Black America | |
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| The African Past | |
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| The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 1500-1800 | |
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| The African Dispersion | |
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| Slavery in British North America, 1633-1755 | |
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| Blacks in British North America, 1680-1740 | |
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| Black Population on the Eve of the Revolution | |
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| Two Communities, Slave and Free | |
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| The First Emancipation | |
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| Free Blacks in the New Republic | |
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| Discrimination in the Antebellum North | |
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| The Free Black Community | |
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| The Cotton Kingdom | |
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| The Slave Community | |
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| Nat Turner's Rebellion, 1831 | |
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| Toward Freedom | |
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| The Expansion of Slavery, 1819-57 | |
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| Runaways, Kidnappings, and Abolitionists | |
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| Slavery and the Civil War | |
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| Radical Reconstruction, 1866-77 | |
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| "Exodusters" | |
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| African Americans Under Arms | |
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| Black Patriots and Loyalists | |
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| Black Men in Blue | |
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| Buffalo Soldiers and the Indian Wars, 1866-90 | |
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| Imperial Wars, 1898-1902 | |
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| World War I | |
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| World War II | |
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| The Cold War: Korea and Vietnam | |
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| The 1990s: Peacekeeping and the Gulf War | |
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| The Struggle for Equality | |
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| Lynching and the New Racial Order | |
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| The Spread of Jim Crow | |
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| Black Colleges and Universities | |
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| The Great Migration | |
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| Marcus Garvey and the UNIA | |
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| The Negro Baseball Leagues | |
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| Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott | |
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| Sit-ins and the Rise of SNCC | |
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| Voting Rights | |
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| African Decolonization and Black Nationalism | |
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| The Nation of Islam | |
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| The African American Community | |
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| The Harlem Renaissance | |
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| African American Musical Traditions | |
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| African American Culture | |
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| Black Political Realignment, 1928-40 | |
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| Urbanization and Black Mayors | |
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| African American Population, 1990 | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |
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| Acknowledgments | |