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The land of their ancestors - Ghana, Mali, Songhay, other states; theAfrican way of life - political institutions, economic life, socialorganization, religion, the arts, the transplantation of African culture; theslave trade and the new world - European and Asian interests, Africa in thenew world, the big business of slave trading, one-way passage, colonialenterprise in the Caribbean, the plantation system, slavery in mainland LatinAmerica; colonial slavery - Virginia and Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia,the middle colonies, blacks in colonial New England; that all may be free -slavery and the revolutionary philosophy, blacks fighting for Americanindependence, the movement to Manumit slaves, the conservative reaction;blacks in the new republic -the black population in 1790, slavery and theindustrial revolution, trouble in the Caribbean, the closing of the slavetrade, the search for independence; blacks and manifest destiny -frontierinfluences, black pioneers in westward march, the war of 1812, emergence ofthe cotton kingdom, the domestic slave trade, persistence of the Africantrade; the peculiar institution - scope and extent, the slave codes,plantation scene, non-agricultural pursuits, social considerations, theslave's reaction to bondage; quasi-free blacks - American anomaly, economicand social development, the struggle in the north and west, colonization;slavery and intersectional strife - the north attacks, black abolitionists,the underground railroad, the south strikes back, stress and strain in thefifties; civil war - uncertain federal policy, moving toward freedom,confederate policy, blacks fighting for the union, victory!; the effort toattain peace -reconstruction and the nation, conflicting policies, relief andrehabilitation, economic adjustment, political currents; losing the peace -the struggle for domination, the overthrow of reconstruction, the movementfor disenfranchisement, the triumph of white supremacy; philanthropy andself-help - northern philanthropy and African-American education, the age ofBooker T. Washington, struggles in the economic sphere, social and culturalgrowth; the colour line - the new American imperialism, America's empire ofdarker peoples, urban problems, the pattern of violence, new solutions forold problems; in pursuit of democracy - World War I, the enlistment ofAfrican-Americans, service overseas, on the home front; democracy escapes -the reaction, the voice of protest rises; the Harlem renaissance and thepolitics of African-American culture - socioeconomic problems andAfrican-American literature, Harlem, the seat and the centre, the circlewidens; the new deal - depression, political regeneration, Roosevelt's "blackcabinet", government agencies and negro relief for blacks, black labour andthe unions; the American dilemma - trends in education, opportunities forself-expression, the world of African-Americans, one world or two? (Partcontents)