An award-winning historian's sweeping new interpretation of the African American experience. In this masterful account, Ira Berlin, one of the nation's most distinguished historians, offers a revolutionary-and sure to be controversial-new view of African American history. In The Making of African America, Berlin challenges the traditional presentation of a linear, progressive history from slavery to freedom. Instead, he puts forth the idea that four great migrations, between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries, lie at the heart of black American culture and its development. With an engrossing, accessible narrative, Berlin traces the transit from Africa to America, Virginia to Alabama, Biloxi to Chicago, Lagos to the Bronx, and in the process finds the essence of black American life.

The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations

History

Berlin, Ira

Americas

Penguin Publishing Group

Describes the lives and socio-cultural patterns of free Blacks in the antebellum South and their interaction with whites as determined largely by white attitudes, institutions, and patterns of thought

Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Describes the lives and socio-cultural patterns of free blacks in the antebellum South and their interaction with whites as determined largely by white attitudes, institutions, and patterns of thought

Slaves Without Masters; The Free Negro in the Antebellum South.

Random House, Inc.

Slaves Without Masters is a vivid and moving history of the quarter of a million free blacks who lived in the South before the Civil War. First published to great acclaim in 1974, Slaves Without Masters established Ira Berlin as one of the outstanding historians of African American life in slavery and freedom. It traces the lives of free black men and women, portraying their struggle for community, liberty, economic independence, and education within an oppressive society.

Slaves without masters: The free Negro in the antebellum South

Vintage Books

Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War

Fields, Barbara J.

Miller, Steven F.

Reidy, Joseph P.

Rowland, Leslie S.

Cambridge University Press

A collection of first-hand accounts drawn from the extensive records of the National Archives. It explains how black military service helped to destroy slavery; it is a social history of black soldiers; it explains how soldiering shaped the life of black people during and after the war.

Freedom: Series II: The Black Military Experience: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 (Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation)

Africa

Cambridge Univ Pr

The three essays in this volume present an introduction to history of the emancipation of the slaves during the Civil War. The first essay traces the destruction of slavery by discussing the shift from a war for the Union to a war against slavery. The slaves are shown to have shaped the destiny of the nation through their determination to place their liberty on the wartime agenda. The second essay examines the evolution of freedom in occupied areas of the lower and upper South. The struggle of those freed to obtain economic independence in difficult wartime circumstances indicates conflicting conceptions of freedom among former slaves and slaveholders, Northern soldiers and civilians. The third essay demonstrates how the enlistment and military service of nearly 200,000 slaves hastened the transformation of the war into a struggle for universal liberty, and how this experience shaped the lives of former slaves long after the war had ended.

When nearly 200,000 black men, most of them former slaves, entered the Union army and navy, they transformed the Civil War into a struggle for liberty and changed the course of American history. Freedom's Soldiers tells the story of those men in their own words and the words of other eyewitnesses. These moving letters, affidavits, and memorials--drawn from the records of the National Archives--reveal the variety and complexity of the African-American experience during the era of emancipation.

Freedom's Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War

Reidy, Joseph Patrick

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The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations

Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South

Slaves Without Masters; The Free Negro in the Antebellum South.

Slaves without masters: The free Negro in the antebellum South

Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War

Freedom: Series II: The Black Military Experience: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 (Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation)

Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War

Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War

Freedom's Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War

Freedom's Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War