Negro in the Making of America Third Edition Revised, Updated, and Expanded

Name: Negro in the Making of America Third Edition Revised, Updated, and Expanded
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ISBN: 9780684818887

ISBN-10: 0684818884

ISBN-13: 9780684818887

Edition: 3rd 1996 (Revised)

Authors: V. P. Franklin, Benjamin Quarles

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The bestselling, definitive study of African Americans throughout American history, now with a new introduction by noted scholar V. P. Franklin In The Negro in the Making of America, eminent historian Benjamin Quarles provides one of the most comprehensive and readable accounts ever gathered in one volume of the role that African Americans have played in shaping the destiny of America. Starting with the arrival of the slave ships in the early 1600s and moving through the Colonial period, the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, and into the last half of the twentieth century, Quarles chronicles the sweep of events that have brought blacks and their struggle for social and economic equality to the…

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List price: $24.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication date: 2/5/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

V.P. Franklin is Distinguished Professor of History at Drexel University. He is the author of several books, including Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Biography and Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths: Autobiography and the Making of the African-American Intellectual Tradition .



Introduction



Foreword



From Africa to the New World (to 1619)



The Colonial and Revolutionary War Negro (1619-1800)



The House of Bondage (1800-1860)



The Nonslave Negro (1800-1860)



New Birth of Freedom (1860-1865)



The Decades of Disappointment (1865-1900)



Turn-of-the-Century Upswing (1900-1920)



From "Normalcy" to New Deal (1920-1940)



War and Peace: Issues and Outcomes (1940-1954)



Democracy's Deepening Challenge (1954-1963)



A Fluid Front (1963-1970)



Widening Horizons (1970-1986)


Selected Bibliography


Index