Negro in the Making of America

Name: Negro in the Making of America
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ISBN: 9780020361404

ISBN-10: 0020361408

ISBN-13: 9780020361404

Edition: 3rd (Revised)

Authors: 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…

Book details

Edition: 3rd
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 4.00" wide x 7.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



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