- 304 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
A revealing volume that portrays the lives of African Americans in all its variety across the entire 19th century—combining coverage of the pre- and post-Civil War eras. Uniquely inclusive, African Americans in the Nineteenth Century: People and Perspectives offers a wealth of insights into the way African Americans lived and how slave-era experiences affected their lives afterward. Coverage goes beyond well-known figures to focus on the lives of African American men, women, and children across the nation, battling the oppression and prejudice that didn't stop with emancipation while they tried to establish their place as Americans. The book ranges from the African origins of African American communities to coverage of slave communities, female slaves, slave–slave holder relations, and freed persons. Additional chapters look at African Americans in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow eras. An alphabetically organized "mini-encyclopedia, " plus additional information sources round out this eye-opening work of social history.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Series Introduction
- Introduction
- About the Editor and Contributors
- Chronology
- 1 Africans and African Americans to the 1820s
- 2 Free Blacks in Antebellum America
- 3 Still Rising: An Intricate Look at Black Female Slaves
- 4 Safety in the Briar Patch: Enslaved Communities in the Nineteenth-Century United States
- 5 Uncovering the True Relationship between Masters and Slaves
- 6 ‘‘Yes, We All Shall Be Free’’: African Americans Make the Civil War a Struggle for Freedom
- 7 African Americans during Reconstruction (1863–1877)
- 8 African American Responses to Early Jim Crow
- 9 ‘‘Their Plows Singing beneath the Sandy Loam’’: African American Agriculture in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South
- 10 African Americans in the Nineteenth-Century West
- 11 Black Indians: America’s Forgotten People
- 12 African American Leaders
- Primary Documents
- Reference
- Bibliography
- Index