African American History and Culture

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It is important to learn about the history and heritage of African Americans that extends back into antiquity because throughout slavery and afterwards, people of European descent advanced what anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits called the “Myths of the Negro Past.

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Publisher
Lumen Learning
Subjects
Humanities, History
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: African Origins – History and Culture
  7. 1.1: Introduction
  8. 1.2: Africans before Captivity
  9. 1.3: Medieval West Africa
  10. 1.4: West Africa, 1300 – 1800AD
  11. 1.5: West Central Africa, 14th – 18th Centuries
  12. 2: The African Slave trade and the Atlantic World
  13. 2.1: Introduction
  14. 2.2: The Transatlantic Slave Trade
  15. 2.3: Which Europeans Trafficked in Slaves?
  16. 2.4: Summary
  17. 2.5: Primary Sources
  18. 3: The Development Indentured Servitude and Racial Slavery in the American Colonies
  19. 3.1: Introduction
  20. 3.2: The Settling of Virginia
  21. 3.3: Tightening the Bonds of Slavery
  22. 3.4: Africans in the Low Country
  23. 4: African Americans and the American Revolution
  24. 4.1: Introduction
  25. 4.2: African Americans and the Rhetoric of Revolution
  26. 4.3: Fighting Their Way to Freedom
  27. 4.4: The Impact of the Revolution on Slavery
  28. 4.5: Primary Sources
  29. 5: Creating an African-American Culture
  30. 5.1: Introduction
  31. 5.2: Language
  32. 5.3: Spiritual Life- Public and Secret
  33. 5.4: Performing Culture in Music and Dance
  34. 6: The Abolitionist Movement
  35. 6.1: Introduction
  36. 6.2: The Abolitionist Movement
  37. 6.3: Atlantic Origins of Reform
  38. 6.4: William Lloyd Garrison
  39. 6.5: Frederick Douglass
  40. 6.6: Primary Sources
  41. 7: The Westward Expansion of Slavery
  42. 7.1: Introduction
  43. 7.2: The Creation Of The Cotton Kingdom
  44. 7.3: The Domestic Slave Trade
  45. 7.4: Life as a Slave in the Cotton Kingdom
  46. 7.5: The Free Black Population
  47. 8: Slavery and the Sectional Crisis
  48. 8.1: Introduction
  49. 8.2: The Sectional Crisis
  50. 8.3: The Crisis Joined
  51. 8.4: Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
  52. 8.5: From Sectional Crisis to National Crisis
  53. 9: African Americans and the Civil War
  54. 9.1: Introduction
  55. 9.2: The Election of 1860 and Secession
  56. 9.3: A War for Union? (1861—1862)
  57. 9.4: War for Freedom (1863—1865)
  58. 9.5: Black Soldiers and Union War Victories (1864—1865)
  59. 9.6: Primary Sources
  60. 10: Reconstruction
  61. 10.1: Introduction
  62. 10.2: Politics of Reconstruction
  63. 10.3: Racial Violence in Reconstruction
  64. 10.4: The End of Reconstruction
  65. Back Matter
  66. Index
  67. Footnote Attribution List
  68. Detailed Licensing