The basis for Garvey's wide popularity was his appeal to race pride at a time when Negroes generally had so little of which to be proud . The strain and stress of living in hostile urban communities created a state of mind upon which ...
From Slavery to Freedom
The preeminent history of African Americans, this best-selling text charts the journey of African Americans from their origins in Africa, through slavery in the Western Hemisphere, struggles for freedom in the West Indies, Latin America, ...
Recounts the journey of Black slaves to freedom via the underground railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways.
Dailey, Jane, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, and Bryant Simon, eds. Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in Western ...
The entries in this volume focus upon the rise and fall of the Atlantic slave system in comparative perspective.
The political and religious forces which led to the decline of the slave trade in nineteenth century Bahia, Brazil.
Those who caught the growing tenor of the times offered slaves a distant freedom . Moreover , heirs were not above strategems and subterfuge if these would help to maintain bondage . In a number of court cases from the early 1790s ...
An exhaustively researched history of black families in America from the days of slavery until just after the Civil War.
A richly illustrated, accessibly written book with a variety of perspectives on slavery, emancipation, and black life in Savannah from the city's founding to the early twentieth century.
Traces the history of the African-American people from the Civil War years through the late twentieth century.