LSC From Slavery to Freedom (Vol. 1) - Brossura

John Hope Franklin was the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History, and for seven years was Professor of Legal History at Duke University Law School. A native of Oklahoma and a graduate of Fisk University (1935), he received the A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in history from Harvard University (1936 and 1941). He taught at a number of institutions, including Fisk, St. Augustines College, and Howard University. In 1956 he went to Brooklyn College as Chair of the Department of History; and in 1964, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago, serving as Chair of the Department of History from 1967 to 1970. At Chicago, he was the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor from 1969 to 1982, when he became Professor Emeritus. Among his many published works are The Free Negro in North Carolina (1943), Reconstruction after the Civil War (1961), A Southern Odyssey (1971), and perhaps his best-known book, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans, now in its ninth edition. In 1990 a collection of essays covering a teaching and writing career of fifty years was published as Race and History: Selected Essays, 1938-1988. At the time of his death in March 2009, he was engaged in research on "Dissidents on the Plantation: Runaway Slaves." During his long career, Professor Franklin was active in numerous professional and educational organizations. For many years he served on the editorial board of the Journal of Negro History. He also served as president of the following organizations: The Southern Historical Association, the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, and the American Historical Association. Dr. Franklin served on many national commissions and delegations, including the National Council on the Humanities, the President's Advisory Commission on Ambassadorial Appointments, and the United States delegation to the 21st General Conference of UNESCO. He was appointed by President Clinton to chair the President's Advisory Board for the One America initiative in June 1997. He was the recipient of many honors. In 1978 Who's Who in America selected him as one of eight Americans who has made significant contributions to society. In 1995 he received the first W.E.B. DuBois Award from the Fisk University Alumni Association, the Organization of American Historians' Award for Outstanding Achievement, the NAACP's Spingarn medal, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In addition to his many awards, Dr. Franklin received honorary degrees from more than one hundred colleges and universities.

Chapter One: Land of Their Ancestors

Ghana

Mali

Songhay

Other States

Chapter Two: The African Way of Life

Political Institutions

Economic Life

Social Organization

Religion

The Arts

African Culture in the Diaspora

Chapter Three: The Slave Trade and the New World

European and Asian Interests

Africans in the New World

The Big Business of Slave Trading

One-Way Passage

Colonial Enterprise in the Caribbean

The Plantation System

Slavery in Mainland Latin America

Chapter Four: Colonial Slavery

Virginia and Maryland

The Carolinas and Georgia

The Middle Colonies

Blacks in Colonial New England

Chapter Five: That All May Be Free

Slavery and the Revolutionary Philosophy

Blacks Fighting for American Independence

The Movement to Manumit Slaves

The Conservative Reaction

Chapter Six: Blacks in the New Republic

The Black Population in 1790

Slavery and the Industrial Revolution

Trouble in the Caribbean

The Closing of the Slave Trade

The Search for Independence

Chapter Seven: Blacks and Manifest Destiny

Frontier Influences

Black Pioneers in the Westward March

The War of 1812

Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom

The Domestic Slave Trade

Persistence of the African Trade

Chapter Eight: That Peculiar Institution

Scope and Extent

The Slave Codes

Plantation Scene

Nonagricultural Pursuits

Social Considerations

The Slave's Reaction to Bondage

Chapter Nine: Quasi-Free Blacks

American Anomaly

Economic and Social Development

The Struggle in the North and West

Colonization

Chapter Ten: Slavery and Intersectional Strife

The North Attacks

Black Abolitionists

Runaways - Overland and Underground

The South Strikes Back

Stress and Strain in the 1850s

Chapter Eleven: Civil War

Uncertain Federal Policy

Moving Toward Freedom

Confederate Policy

Blacks Fighting for the Union

Victory!

Chapter Twelve: The Effort to Attain Peace

Reconstruction and the Nation

Conflicting Policies

Relief and Rehabilitation

Economic Adjustment

Political Currents

Chapter Thirteen: Losing the Peace

The Struggle for Domination

The Overthrow of Reconstruction

The Movement of Disenfranchisement

The Triumph of White Supremacy