African American History and Culture
About This Book
3 Introduction African Origins—History and Culture Module Introduction Module 1 explores the rich histories and diverse cultures of West African peoples from antiquity to the early nineteenth-century. In the process, it addresses such questions as: - Who were the African people who migrated to the Americas, voluntarily and involuntarily? - What regions of Africa did they come from? - What were their African societies like? - What were their cultural patterns and everyday lives like before they c
| Category | humanities |
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| Subject | History |
| Year | 2023 |
| Authors | |
| Chapters | 28 |
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| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Chapters
- 7 West Central Africa, 14th – 18th Centuries
- 8 Introduction
- 9 The Transatlantic Slave Trade
- Summary of Transatlantic Slave Trade
- Primary Navigation
- 13 Introduction
- 15 Tightening the Bonds of Slavery
- Africans in the Low Country
- 18 African Americans and the Rhetoric of Revolution
- 19 Fighting Their Way to Freedom
- 20 The Impact of the Revolution on Slavery
- 23 Language
- 24 Spiritual Life: Public & Secret
- 29 William Lloyd Garrison
- 30 Frederick Douglass
- 32 Introduction
- 33 The Creation Of The Cotton Kingdom
- 34 The Domestic Slave Trade
- The Free Black Population
- 37 Introduction
- 39 The Crisis Joined
- 40 Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
- 42 Introduction
- 43 The Election of 1860 and Secession
- 44 A War for Union? (1861—1862)
- Black Soldiers and Union War Victories (1864—1865)
- 47 Primary Sources
- 51 The End of Reconstruction