The Routledge atlas of African American history
Book - 2000
"From the 16th century African slave trade to the 20th century struggle for equality, The Routledge Atlas of African American History examines the geographical and historical context of the African American Experience. Focusing on issues and events that resonate to this day, topics include: slave revolts, black patriots, slave communities, the Civil War, African Americans in the armed services, the spread of Jim Crow, the Negro Baseball League, the Civil Rights Movement, the Voting Rights Act, the Harlem Renaissance, the expansion of the black middle class, and much more. Also includes 50 color maps"--Publisher description.
- Subjects
- Genres
- History
Maps - Published
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New York :
Routledge
2000.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 144 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 27 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780415921367
9780415921428
- pt. 1. The roots of Black America
- The African past
- The trans-Atlantic slave trade, 1500-1800
- The African dispersion
- Slavery in British North America, 1633-1755
- Blacks in British North American, 1680-1740
- Black population on the eve of the revolution
- pt. 2. Two communities, slave and free
- The first emancipation
- Free Blacks in the new republic
- Discrimination in the antebellum North
- The free Black community
- The cotton kingdom
- The slave community
- Nat Turner's rebellion, 1831-- pt. 3. Toward freedom
- Expansion of slavery, 1819-57
- Runaways, kidnappings, and abolitionists
- Slavery and the Civil War
- Radical reconstruction, 1866-57
- "Exodusters"
- pt. 4. African Americans under arms
- Black patriots and loyalists
- Black men in blue
- Buffalo Soldiers and the Indian Wars, 1866-90
- Imperial wars, 1898-1902
- World War I
- World War II
- The Cold War: Korea and Vietnam
- The 1990s: peacekeeping and the Gulf War
- pt. 5. The struggle for equality Lynching and the new racial order
- The spread of Jim Crow
- Black colleges and universities
- The Great Migration
- Marcus Garvey and the UNIA
- The Negro baseball leagues
- Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott
- Sit-ins and the rise of SNCC
- Voting rights
- African decolonization and black nationalism
- The Nation of Islam
- pt. 6. The African American community
- The Harlem Renaissance
- African American musical traditions
- African American culture
- Black political realignment, 1928-40
- Urbanization and Black mayors
- African American population, 1990.