LSC From Slavery to Freedom, Volume 1 (COL1)

The preeminent history of African-Americans, this best-selling text charts the journey of African-Americans from their origins in the civilizations of Africa, through slavery in the Western Hemisphere, their struggle for freedom in the West Indies, Latin America, and the United States, to the election of our first African American president. The ninth edition of this best-selling text has been thoroughly rewritten and reorganized to reflect the most current scholarship on African-American history. Beginning with greater coverage of ancestral Africa, the text contains new material on African American migration, notable African American women, popular culture, and the 2008 election. The text also has a fresh new 4-color design with new charts, maps, photographs, paintings, and illustrations. Written by legendary, award-winning authors, From Slavery to Freedom remains the most revered, respected, honored text on the market.

Table of Contents:
PART I
Becoming African American
Chapter 1 - Africa
Chapter 2 - Middle Passage
Chapter 3 - Black People in Colonial North America, 1526—1763
Chapter 4 - Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle for Independence, 1763—1783
Chapter 5 - African Americans in the New Nation, 1783—1820

PART II
Slavery, Abolition, and the Quest for Freedom: The Coming of the Civil War, 1793—1861
Chapter 6 - Life in the Cotton Kingdom
Chapter 7 - Free Black People in Antebellum America
Chapter 8 - Opposition to Slavery, 1800—1833
Chapter 9 - Let Your Motto Be Resistance, 1833—1850
Chapter 10 - "And Black People Were at the Heart of It": The United States Disunites over Slavery

PART III
The Civil War, Emancipation, and Black Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution 230Chapter 11 - Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War
Chapter 12 - The Meaning of Freedom: The Promise of Reconstruction, 1865—1868
Chapter 13 - The Meaning of Freedom: The Failure of Reconstruction


About the Author :
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is currently chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and has held this position since 2006. Professor Higginbotham earned a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in American History, an M.A. from Howard University, and her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Before coming to Harvard, she taught on the full-time faculties of Dartmouth, the University of Maryland, and the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, she was a Visiting Professor at Princeton University and New York University.Professor Higginbotham's writings span diverse fields--African American religious history, women's history, civil rights, constructions of racial and gender identity, electoral politics, and the intersection of theory and history. She is co-editor with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of the African American National Biography (2008)--a multivolume-reference work that presents African American history through the lives of people. Professor Higginbotham is the author of Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church: 1880-1920 (1993), which won numerous book prizes and was also included among The New York Times Book Review's Notable Books of the Year in 1993 and 1994. Dr. Higginbotham has received numerous awards. In April 2003 she was chosen by Harvard University to be a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow in recognition of her achievements and scholarly eminence in the field of history. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History awarded her the Carter G. Woodson Scholars Medallion in October 2008, and the Urban League awarded her the Legend Award in August 2008.