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From slavery to freedom : a history of African Americans / John Hope Franklin, Alfred A. Moss, Jr.

by Franklin, John Hope, 1915-

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New York : A.A Knopf, c2000.

African Americans -- History.

Slavery -- United States -- History.

xxiv, 742 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Land of their ancestors -- African way of life -- Slave trade and the new world -- Colonial slavery -- That all may be free -- Blacks in the new republic -- Blacks and manifest destiny -- That peculiar institution -- Quasi-free blacks -- Slavery and intersectional strife -- Civil War -- Effort to attain peace -- Losing the peace -- Philanthropy and self-help -- Color line -- In pursuit of democracy -- Democracy escapes -- Harlem renaissance -- New deal -- American dilemma -- Fighting for the four freedoms -- African Americans in the Cold War era -- Black revolution -- Reaction and progress -- Half century of change.

From Slavery to Freedom describes the rise of slavery, the interaction of European and African cultures in the New World, and the emergence of a distinct culture and way of life among slaves and free blacks. The authors examine the role of blacks in the nation's wars, the rise of an articulate, restless free black community by the end of the eighteenth century, and the growing resistance to slavery among an expanding segment of the black population.

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