The African Americans
Subtitle: many rivers to cross
By: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Donald Yacovone
Contributors: Yacovone, Donald, author
Edition: 1st edition.
Publisher: Smiley Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781401935146; 9781401935153
Subjects: African Americans; History
Other titles: Many rivers to cross
Description: Chronicles five hundred years of African-American history from the origins of slavery on the African continent through Barack Obama's second presidential term, examining contributing political and cultural events.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) and index.
Table of contents: title: Africans in the Americas, 1500-1540; title: The worlds slavery made, 1526-1763; title: The age of revolutions, 1700-1811; title: Half slave, half free, 1797-1858; title: The war to end slavery, 1859-1865; title: Reconstruction and redemption, 1865-1900; title: The nadir and the renaissance, 1890-1940; title: Rise! a people emergent, 1940-1968; title: From Black Power to the White House, 1968-2013.