Children of fire : a history of African Americans /

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Author / Creator:Holt, Thomas C. (Thomas Cleveland), 1942-
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Hill and Wang, 2010.
Description:xvii, 438 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8106507
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ISBN:9780809067138 (alk. paper)
0809067137 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • 1. Middle Passages, Middlemen: Europe, Africa, America, and the Slave Trade
  • 2. Many Thousands Born: The Roots of African America
  • 3. Slaves and Citizens: African America in the Age of Revolution
  • 4. "A New Birth of Freedom": The Destruction of Slavery and Reconstruction of Black Life
  • 5. Regtime: Race and Nation at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
  • 6. "A Second Emancipation": The Great Migrations of the Twentieth Century
  • 7. "A Second Reconstruction": The Freedom Movement
  • 8. Citizens of the Nation, Citizens of the World: African America in the Twenty-first Century
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index