Chapter 1 Ancestral Africa (circa 500 B.C.E to 1600) 1 Chapter 2 Africans in the Atlantic World (1492–1800) 22 Chapter 3 Establishing North American Slavery (1520s to 1720s) 47 Chapter 4 Eighteenth-Century Slave Societies (1700–1780s) 64 Chapter 5 Give Me Liberty (1763–1787) 84 Chapter 6 Building Communities in the Early Republic (1790–1830) 103 Chapter 7 Southern Slavery (1790–1860) 129 Chapter 8 Antebellum Free Blacks (1830–1860) 159 Chapter 9 Abolitionism in Black and White (1820–1860) 184 Chapter 10 Civil War (1861–1865) 208 Chapter 11 Promises and Pitfalls of Reconstruction (1863–1877) 235 Chapter 12 The Color Line (1877–1917) 260 Chapter 13 The Era of Self-Help (1880–1916) 287 Chapter 14 In Pursuit of Democracy (1914–1919) 327 Chapter 15 Voices of Protest (1910–1928) 351 Chapter 16 The Arts at Home and Abroad (1920s to early 1930s) 380 Chapter 17 The New Deal Era (1929–1941) 417 Chapter 18 Double V for Victory (1941–1945) 449 Chapter 19 American Dilemmas (1940–1955) 473 Chapter 20 We Shall Overcome (1947–1967) 510 Chapter 21 Black Power (1955–1980) 549 Chapter 22 Progress and Poverty (1980–2000) 583 Chapter 23 Perspectives on the Present (since 2000) 612 |