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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 | |