Primary Navigation
Want to create or adapt books like this? Learn more about how Pressbooks supports open publishing practices.
Book Contents Navigation
1. Introduction
2. Africans before Captivity
3. Medieval West Africa
4. West Africa, 1300 – 1800AD
5. West Central Africa, 14th – 18th Centuries
6. Module 1 Assessments
7. Introduction
8. The Transatlantic Slave Trade
9. Which Europeans Trafficked in Slaves?
10. Summary
11. Primary Sources
12. Module 2 Asessments
13. Introduction
14. The Settling of Virginia
15. Tightening the Bonds of Slavery
16. Africans in the Low Country
17. Module 3 Assessments
18. Introduction
19. African Americans and the Rhetoric of Revolution
20. Fighting Their Way to Freedom
21. The Impact of the Revolution on Slavery
22. Primary Sources
23. Module 4 Assessments
24. Introduction
25. Language
26. Spiritual Life: Public & Secret
27. Performing Culture in Music & Dance
28. Module 5 Assessments
29. Introduction
30. The Abolitionist Movement
31. Atlantic Origins of Reform
32. William Lloyd Garrison
33. Frederick Douglass
34. Primary Sources
35. Module 6 Assessments
36. Introduction
37. The Creation Of The Cotton Kingdom
38. The Domestic Slave Trade
39. Life as a Slave in the Cotton Kingdom
40. The Free Black Population
41. Module 7 Assessments
42. Introduction
43. The Sectional Crisis
44. The Crisis Joined
45. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
46. From Sectional Crisis to National Crisis
47. Module 8 Assessments
48. Introduction
49. The Election of 1860 and Secession
50. A War for Union? (1861—1862)
51. War for Freedom (1863—1865)
52. Black Soldiers and Union War Victories (1864—1865)
53. Primary Sources
54. Module 9 Assessments
55. Introduction
56. Politics of Reconstruction
57. Racial Violence in Reconstruction
58. The End of Reconstruction
59. Module 10 Assessments
60. Footnote Attribution List
Document File Link
Previous/next navigation
African American History and Culture Copyright © by Lumen Learning is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.