| Description |
xii, 751 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Part 1. The world the slaveholders made : Black cargoes. An ex-slaveship captain describes how he was captured in Africa ; A Dutch slave ship captain describes the trade for slaves at the port of Whydah in West Africa ; An English slave-ship surgeon describes the horrors of the middle passage -- The peculiar institution. Sojourner Truth : A slave in the north ; Solomon Northup describes the interstate slave trade and slave life in the southern port and his escape and bondage ; Frederick Douglass describes slave life in a southern port and his escape from bondage ; William Still recalls a famous incident in the history of the underground railroad : the escape of Henry Box Brown ; Nat Turner describes his insurrection -- Part 2. North of slavery : The Philadelphia Negro : a case study. A description of the black community in Ante-Bellum Philadelphia ; W. E. B. Du Bois describes the role of the Philadelphia colored caterers, 1840-1870 ; Life among the higher classes of Negro sosiety in Philadelphia, 1841 ; Philadelphia Negroes protest against their disinfranchisement ; The church and the mutual benefit society : The origins of the African Episcopal church of St. Thomas -- The antislavery vanguard. Proceedings of the First Annual Free People of Color, 1831 ; The Underground Railroad : The activities of the New York Committee of Vigilance ; An Abolitionist oration by Frederick Douglas ; Henry Highland Garnet calls for slave rebellions ; Address of the National Emigration Convention of 1854. -- Part 3. From slavery to freedom...to Jim Crow : The Negro's Civil War. Frederick Douglas calls upon black men to enlist in the Union army ; William Wells Brown describes the Battle of Port Hudson ; Black soldiers struggle for equal pay ; An eyewitness account of the New York Draft Riots of 1863 : After slavery. Black delegates to the South Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1868 debate the distribution of land to the freedmen ; The Freedmen's Bureau Superintendent of Education reports on conditions among the freedmen ; A black militia captain offers testimony on the Hamburg Riot of 1876 ; Henry M. Turner denonounces the Georgia legislature for expelling the Negro members : Black cowboys. Nat Love describes how he joined the cowboys : The Nadir. 1879 National Negro Convention urges Negroes to leave the South ; T. Thomas Fortune denounces the worsening conditions ; Frederick Douglas protests the Supreme Court Decision on the Civil Rights Cases, 1883 ; Ida B. Wells-Barnett describes the horrors of southern lynchings -- |
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African Americans -- History -- Sources.
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African Americans. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Sources.
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| Subject |
Noirs -- Histoire -- Sources. |
| Added Author |
Meier, August, 1923-2003.
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Rudwick, Elliott M.
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