Author:
Fishel, Leslie H.
Imprint:Glenview, IL : Scott, Foresman [1967]
Description536 p. : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Note:205 documents are collected into the following chapters and groups: Ch. 1: SEED FROM WEST AFRICA: From Africa to America -- The status of Negroes in Colonial America -- Concern for the Negro -- Ch. 2: THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR PERIOD: The revolutionary philosophy of freedom -- Uncertain trumpet -- Arms-bearers for America -- In His Majesty's service -- Postwar federal action -- The early abolitionist impulse -- Emergence of the Negro vanguard -- Ch. 3. SLAVERY'S LENGTHENING SHADOW: The internal slave trade -- The pro-slavery argument -- Critical observers of slavery -- Variations in the pattern -- Control of the slave -- Slave attitudes -- Ch. 5: NEGROES WITHOUT MASTERS: The free Negro in the South -- Free Negroes of substance -- The Free Negro in the North -- Adjustment and advance -- Ch. 5. ABOLITIONISM AND TEH CRISIS OF THE FIFTIES: The new spirit of abolitionism -- The Negro abolitionist -- Abolition's widening influence -- Ch. 6: DAY OF FREEDOM: Response of the Northern Negro to the outbreak of war -- A war for emancipation -- The Negro serviceman -- Adjustment of the newly freed slave -- Role of the Negro in the Confederacy -- The Negro's Lincoln -- Freedom insured -- Ch. 7: THE BURDENS OF RECONSTRUCTION: The Southern view of the freedman and the Nero response -- Reconstruction: a black page? -- Reconstruction: a national problem -- Ch. 7: A TIME OF TRANSITION: The Negro speaks and acts -- White control and Negro reactions -- Ch. 9: THE NEGRO STANDS UP: Contrasting positions and a new militancy -- The nadir of race relations -- Organized response -- Political impotence -- The Negro at home and war -- Ch. 10: REACTION AND RENAISSANCE: Urbanization and race violence -- Flood tide of racism -- The Negro renaissance -- Ch. 11: THE NEGRO IN A TIME OF DEMOCRATIC CRISIS: The Negro and the New Deal -- Discrimination in the Thirties and Forties -- The Truman Administration -- Ch. 12: THE LAST MILE TO FREEDOM: Separate in not equal.
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