Cover Image

The Negro in our history /

Show other versions (9)
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Woodson, Carter Godwin, 1875-1950 (Author), Wesley, Charles H. (Charles Harris), 1891-1987 (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Associated Publishers, Incorporated, [1962]
Edition:Tenth edition, further revised and enlarged.
Series:Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law.
Subjects:
African Americans > History.
Slavery > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The unknown African origin
  • African institutions a background
  • Africans in history with others
  • Foreign aggression
  • The situation in tropical America
  • Slavery in a struggle with servitude
  • Slavery in ascendancy
  • The Negro and the rights of man
  • Independent efforts
  • The reaction
  • Self-assertion
  • A declining antislavery movement
  • Slavery at the worst
  • The free Negro
  • Blazing the way
  • Colonization
  • Schemes for deportation
  • Abolition
  • Further protest
  • Slavery and the Constitution
  • The irrepressible conflict
  • The Negro in the Civil War
  • Reconstruction
  • Political reconstruction undone
  • Finding a way of escape
  • Achievements in freedom
  • In the court of the Gentiles
  • The tender mercies of the wicked
  • The Negro in the first World War
  • The Negro and social justice
  • Courageous efforts
  • Educational development
  • Health and spirit
  • Toward economic efficiency
  • Negro art in its natural setting
  • The second World War
  • The years of change
  • Citizenship and economic advancement
  • The years of change
  • Education and cultural attainment
  • The darker peoples abroad in transition.