Research Catalog

Title

The Negro American : a documentary history / [by] Leslie H. Fishel, Jr. [and] Benjamin Quarles.

Author

Fishel, Leslie H.

Publication

Glenview, Ill. : Scott, Foresman, [1967]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Quarles, Benjamin

Description

536 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

Highlights the life of the plant breeder who developed many new trees, fruit, flowers, vegetables, grains, and grasses and improved many plants and trees aleady known.

Subject

• African Americans > History > Sources
• African Americans
• Historia Da America

Genre/Form

• History
• Sources
• Sources.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical footnotes.

Contents

From Africa to America -- The status of Negroes in Colonial America -- Concern for the Negro -- The revolutionary philosophy of freedom -- Uncertain trumpet -- Arms-bearers for America -- In his majesty's service -- Postwar federal action -- The early abolitionist impulse -- Emergence of the Negro vanguard -- The internal slave trade -- The pro-slavery argument -- Critical observers of slavery -- Variations in the pattern -- Control of the slave -- Slave attitudes -- The free Negro in the South -- Free Negroes of substance -- The free Negro in the North -- Adjustment and advance -- The new spirit of abolitionism -- The Negro abolitionist -- Abolition's widening influence -- Response of the northern Negro to the outbreak of war -- A war for emancipation -- The Negro serviceman -- Adjustment of the newly freed slave -- The Negro's Lincoln -- Freedom insured -- The Southern view of the freedman and the Negro response -- Reconstruction : a black page? -- Reconstruction : a National problem -- The Negro speaks and acts -- White control and Negro reactions -- Contrasting positions and a new militancy -- The nadir of race relations -- Organized response -- Political impotence -- The Negro at home and war -- Urbanization and race violence -- Flood tide of racism -- The Negro renaissance -- The Negro and the New Deal -- Discrimination in the thirties and forties -- The Truman administration -- Separate is not equal.

LCCN

67026184

OCLC

• ocm00422581
• 422581
• SCSB-114218

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library