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This edition has been revised to include expanded material on Africa, the history of African Americans in the Caribbean and Latin America, the modern situation of African Americans in the USA and popular culture. This edition also contains redesigned maps, charts, photographs and illustrations.

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• Chapter One Land of Their Ancestors
• Chapter Two The African Way of Life
• Chapter Three The Slave Trade and the New World
• Chapter Four Colonial Slavery
• Chapter Five That All May Be Free
• Chapter Six Blacks in the New Republic
• Chapter Seven Blacks and Manifest Destiny
• Chapter Eight That Peculiar Institution
• Chapter Nine Quasi-Free Blacks
• Chapter Ten Slavery and Intersectional Strife
• Chapter Eleven Civil War
• Chapter Twelve The Effort to Attain Peace
• Chapter Thirteen Losing the Peace
• Chapter Fourteen Philanthropy and Self-Help
• Chapter Fifteen The Color Line
• Chapter Sixteen In Pursuit of Democracy
• Chapter Seventeen Democracy Escapes
• Chapter Eighteen The Harlem Renaissance
• Chapter Nineteen The New Deal Chapter Twenty: The American Dilemma
• Chapter Twenty-One Fighting for the Four Freedoms
• Chapter Twenty-Two African Americans in the Cold War Era
• Chapter Twenty-Three The Black Revolution
• Chapter Twenty-Four New Forms of Activism
• Chapter Twenty-Five Legacies for the Twenty-First Century

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

The son of an attorney who practiced before the U.S. Supreme Court, John Hope Franklin was born in Rentiesville, Oklahoma on January 2, 1915. He received a B. A. from Fisk University in 1935 and a master's degree in 1936 and a Ph.D. in 1941 from Harvard University. During his career in education, he taught at a numerous institutions including Brooklyn College, Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and Duke University. He also had teaching stints in Australia, China, and Zimbabwe.

He has written numerous scholarly works including The Militant South, 1800-1861 (1956); Reconstruction After the Civil War (1961); The Emancipation Proclamation (1963); and The Color Line: Legacy for the 21st Century (1993). His comprehensive history From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans (1947) is generally acknowledged to be the basic survey of African American history. He received numerous awards during his lifetime including the Medal of Freedom in 1995 and the John W. Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanities in 2006.

He worked with Thurgood Marshall's team of lawyers in their effort to end segregation in the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education and participated in the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was president of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Southern Historical Association, and the American Studies Association. He was also a founding member of the Black Academy of Arts and served on the U.S. Commission for UNESCO and the Committee on International Exchange of Scholars. He died of congestive heart failure on March 25, 2009 at the age of 94.

(Bowker Author Biography)