Daily Life of African Americans in Primary Documents

[2 volumes]

Herbert C. Covey, Dwight Eisnach, Herbert C. Covey, Dwight Eisnach

• Publisher: Greenwood
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781440866647
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216071334
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: African American History
• Index: History

Daily Life of African Americans in Primary Documents takes readers on an insightful journey through the life experiences of African Americans over the centuries, capturing African American experiences, challenges, accomplishments, and daily lives, often in their own words.

This two-volume set provides readers with a balanced collection of materials that captures the wide-ranging experiences of African American people over the history of North America. Volume 1 begins with the enslavement and transportation of slaves to North America and ends with the Civil War; Volume 2 continues with the beginning of Reconstruction through the election of Barack Obama to the U.S. presidency.

Each volume provides a chronology of major events, a historic overview, and sections devoted to domestic, material, economic, intellectual, political, leisure, and religious life of African Americans for the respective time spans. Volume 1 covers a wide variety of topics from a multitude of perspectives in such areas as enslavement, life during the Civil War, common foods, housing, clothing, political opinions, and similar topics. Volume 2 addresses the civil rights movement, court cases, life under Jim Crow, Reconstruction, busing, housing segregation, and more.

Each volume includes 100–110 primary sources with suggested readings from government publications, court testimony, census data, interviews, newspaper accounts, period appropriate letters, Works Progress Administration interviews, sermons, laws, diaries, and reports.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Set Introduction
• Chronology of Selected Events, 1492–1865
• PART I: HISTORICAL OVERVIEW, 1492–1865
• PART II: DOMESTIC LIFE
• PART III: ECONOMIC LIFE
• PART IV: MATERIAL LIFE
• PART V: INTELLECTUAL LIFE
• PART VI: POLITICAL LIFE
• PART VII: CIVIL WAR LIFE
• PART VIII: LEISURE LIFE
• PART IX: RELIGIOUS LIFE
• Suggested Readings
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Set Introduction
• Chronology of Selected Events, 1865–2020
• PART I: HISTORICAL OVERVIEW, 1865–2020
• PART II: DOMESTIC LIFE
• PART III: ECONOMIC AND MATERIAL LIFE
• PART IV: INTELLECTUAL LIFE
• PART V: POLiTICAL LIFE
• PART VI: THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
• PART VII: MILITARY LIFE
• PART VIII: LEISURE LIFE
• PART IX: RELIGIOUS LIFE
• Suggested Readings
• Index
• About the Editors