A Companion to African American History

Copyright © 2005 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to African American History

Editor(s): Alton Hornsby

Published Online: 26 NOV 2007

Print ISBN: 9780631230663

Online ISBN: 9780470996720

DOI: 10.1002/9780470996720

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A Companion to African American History is a collection of original and authoritative essays arranged thematically and topically, covering a wide range of subjects from the seventeenth century to the present day.


  • Analyzes the major sources and the most influential books and articles in the field
  • Includes discussions of globalization, region, migration, gender, class and social forces that make up the broad cultural fabric of African American history

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xiii)

    1. Introduction (pages 1–2)

      Alton Hornsby

  3. Part I: African and Other Roots

    1. Chapter 1

      Life and Work in West Africa (pages 3–22)

      Augustine Konneh

    2. Chapter 2

      Africans in Europe Prior to the Atlantic Slave Trade (pages 23–47)

      Maghan Keita

    3. Chapter 3

      The African and European Slave Trades (pages 48–66)

      Walter C. Rucker

    4. Chapter 4

      Africans in the Caribbean and Latin America: The Post-Emancipation Diaspora (pages 67–85)

      Frederick D. Opie

  4. Part II: Africans in Early Nonrth America

    1. Chapter 5

      Ethnicity, Nationality, and Race in Colonial America (pages 87–104)

      Jeffrey Elton Anderson

    2. Chapter 6

      Not Chattel, Not Free: Quasi-Free Blacks in the Colonial Era (pages 105–120)

      Antonio F. Holland and Debra Foster Greene

    3. Chapter 7

      Africans and Native Americans (pages 121–139)

      Tiya Miles and Barbara Krauthamer

  5. Part III: In The House of Bondage

    1. Chapter 8

      Origins and Institutionalization of American Slavery (pages 141–158)

      Jason R. Young

    2. Chapter 9

      Labor in the Slave Community, 1700–1860 (pages 159–175)

      Frederick C. Knight

    3. Chapter 10

      Spirituality and Socialization in the Slave Community (pages 176–198)

      Jason R. Young

    4. Chapter 11

      Slave Rebels and Black Abolitionists (pages 199–216)

      Stanley Harrold

  6. Part IV: Transculturation

    1. Chapter 12

      The Americanization of Africans and the Africanization of America (pages 219–234)

      Samuel T. Livingston

    2. Chapter 13

      African Americans and an Atlantic World Culture (pages 235–253)

      Walter C. Rucker

  7. Part V: The Civil War, Emancipation, and the Quest for Freedom

    1. Chapter 14

      African Americans and the American Civil War (pages 255–270)

      Oscar R. Williams and Hayward “Woody” Farrar

    2. Chapter 15

      Jim Crowed – Emancipation Betrayed: African Americans Confront the Veil (pages 271–282)

      Charles W. McKinney and Rhonda Jones

  8. Part VI: The Maturation of African American Communities and the Emergence of Independent Institutions

    1. Chapter 16

      African American Religious and Fraternal Organizations (pages 283–294)

      David H. Jackson

    2. Chapter 17

      The Quest for “Book Learning”: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom (pages 295–311)

      Christopher M. Span and James D. Anderson

    3. Chapter 18

      The Growth of African American Cultural and Social Institutions (pages 312–324)

      David H. Jackson

    4. Chapter 19

      African American Entrepreneurship in Slavery and Freedom (pages 325–331)

      Anne R. Hornsby

    5. Chapter 20

      The Black Press (pages 332–345)

      Shirlet E. Thompson

  9. Part VII: African Americans and Wars “For Democracy”

    1. Chapter 21

      The Black Soldier in Two World Wars (pages 347–363)

      Hayward “Woody” Farrar

    2. Chapter 22

      Identity, Patriotism, and Protest on the Wartime Home Front, 1917–19, 1941–5 (pages 364–378)

      Hayward “Woody” Farrar

  10. Part VIII: Gender and Class

    1. Chapter 23

      Gender and Class in Post-Emancipation Black Communities (pages 379–394)

      Angela M. Hornsby

    2. Chapter 24

      African American Women since the Second World War: Perspectives on Gender and Race (pages 395–411)

      Delores P. Aldridge

    3. Chapter 25

      Striving for Place: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) People (pages 412–445)

      Juan J. Battle and Natalie D. A. Bennett

  11. Part IX: Migration, Renaissance, and New Beginnings

    1. Chapter 26

      Exodus from the South (pages 447–462)

      Mark Andrew Huddle

    2. Chapter 27

      Development, Growth, and Transformation in Higher Education (pages 463–475)

      Abel A. Bartley

    3. Chapter 28

      Identity, Protest, and Outreach in the Arts (pages 476–495)

      Julius E. Thompson

  12. Part X: Searching for Place

    1. Chapter 29

      Searching for a New Freedom (pages 497–511)

      Hasan Kwame Jeffries

    2. Chapter 30

      “Race Rebels”: From Indigenous Insurgency to Hip-Hop Mania (pages 512–528)

      Marcellus C. Barksdale and Samuel T. Livingston

    3. Chapter 31

      Searching for Place: Nationalism, Separatism, and Pan-Africanism (pages 529–544)

      Akinyele Umoja

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      Index (pages 545–564)

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