The Negro American : a documentary history

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Bibliographic Details
OCLC:422581
Main Author: Fishel, Leslie H.
Other Authors: Quarles, Benjamin (joint author.)
Language:English
Published: Glenview, Ill. Scott, Foresman [1967]
Subjects:
African Americans > History > Sources > Textbooks.
United States > History > Textbooks.
Format:

Monograph

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Table of 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.

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