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Book

Children of fire : a history of African Americans

Call Number

  • 973.0496 H7585 (POW)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Hill and Wang, 2010.

Physical Description

xvii, 438 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents

  • Middle passages, middlemen : Europe, Africa, America, and the slave trade
  • Many thousands born : the roots of African America
  • Slaves and citizens : African America in the age of Revolution
  • "A new birth of freedom" : the destruction of slavery and Reconstruction of Black life
  • Ragtime : race and nation at the dawn of the 20th century
  • "A second emancipation" : the great migrations of the twentieth century
  • "A second Reconstruction" : the freedom movement
  • Citizens of the nation, citizens of the world : African America in the 21st century.

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