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Part I Becoming African American 2 1 Africa, ca. 6000 bce–ca. 1600 ce 4 2 Middle Passage, ca. 1450–1809 28 3 Black People in Colonial North
America, 1526–1763 55
4 Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle for Independence, 1763–1783 89
5 African Americans in the New Nation, 1783–1820 113
Part II Slavery, Abolition, and the Quest for Freedom: The Coming of the Civil War, 1793–1861 144
6 Life in the Cotton Kingdom, 1793–1861 146
7 Free Black People in Antebellum America, 1820–1861 173
8 Opposition to Slavery, 1730–1833 202 9 Let Your Motto Be Resistance,
1833–1850 222
10 “And Black People Were at the Heart of It”: The United States Disunites Over Slavery, 1846–1861 245
Part III The Civil War, Emancipation, and Black Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution 276
11 Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War, 1861–1865 278
12 The Meaning of Freedom: The Promise of Reconstruction, 1865–1868 313
13 The Meaning of Freedom: The Failure of Reconstruction, 1868–1877 342
Part IV Searching for Safe Spaces 368 14 White Supremacy Triumphant:
African Americans in the Late Nineteenth Century, 1877–1895 370
15 African Americans Challenge White Supremacy, 1877–1918 401
16 Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African Americans in the Early Twentieth Century, 1895–1925 438
17 African Americans and the 1920s, 1918–1929 481
Part V The Great Depression and World War II 514
18 Black Protest, Great Depression, and the New Deals, 1929–1940 516
19 Meanings of Freedom: Black Culture and Society, 1930–1950 550
20 The World War II Era and the Seeds of a Revolution, 1940–1950 583
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Part VI The Black Revolution 618 21 The Long Freedom Movement,
1950–1970 620
22 Black Nationalism, Black Power, and Black Arts, 1965–1980 662
23 Black Politics and President Barack Obama, 1980–2016 704
24 African Americans End the Twentieth Century and Enter into the Twenty-First Century, 1980–2016 749
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Maps xxvii Figures xxix Tables xxxi Preface xxxiii About The African-American Odyssey, 7e xxxv Chapter Revision Highlights xxxvii Revel™ xxxix Documents Available in Revel™ xli Acknowledgments xlv About the Authors xlvii
Part I Becoming African American 2
1 Africa, ca. 6000 bce–ca. 1600 ce 4 1.1 A Huge and Diverse Land 5 1.2 The Birthplace of Humanity 6 1.3 Ancient Civilizations and Old Arguments 7 1.3.1 Egyptian Civilization 8
1.3.2 Nubia, Kush, Meroë, and Axum 9
1.4 West Africa 10 1.4.1 Ancient Ghana 11
VoiCes Al BAkri DesCriBes kumBi sAleh AnD GhAnA’s royAl Court 12
1.4.2 The Empire of Mali, 1230–1468 13
1.4.3 The Empire of Songhai, 1464–1591 14
1.4.4 The West African Forest Region 15 VoiCes A DesCriPtion oF Benin City 18
ProFile nzinGA mBemBA (AFonso i) oF konGo 19
1.5 Kongo and Angola 20 1.6 West African Society and Culture 20 1.6.1 Families and villages 20
1.6.2 Women 21
1.6.3 Class and Slavery 21
1.6.4 Religion 22
1.6.5 Art and Music 22
1.6.6 Literature: Oral Histories, Poetry, and Tales 23
1.6.7 Technology 23 Conclusion 24
Chapter timeline 24
review Questions 26
retracing the odyssey 26
recommended reading 26
Additional Bibliography 27
2 Middle Passage, ca. 1450–1809 28 2.1 The European Age of Exploration
and Colonization 29
2.2 The Slave Trade in Africa and the Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade 30
2.3 Growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade 33 2.4 The African-American Ordeal from Capture
to Destination 35
2.4.1 The Crossing 36
2.4.2 The Slavers and Their Technology 37
2.4.3 A Slave’s Story 38 ProFile olAuDAh eQuiAno 39
2.4.4 A Captain’s Story 40
2.4.5 Provisions for the Middle Passage 40
2.4.6 Sanitation, Disease, and Death 41
2.4.7 Resistance and Revolt at Sea 42 VoiCes the JournAl oF A DutCh slAVer 43
2.4.8 Cruelty 44
2.4.9 African Women on Slave Ships 45 ProFile AyuBA suleimAn DiAllo oF BonDu 45
VoiCes Dysentery (or the BlooDy Flux) 46
2.5 Landing and Sale in the West Indies 47 2.6 Seasoning 48 2.7 The End of the Journey: Masters and Slaves
in the Americas 49
2.8 The Ending of the Atlantic Slave Trade 50 Conclusion 50
Chapter timeline 51
review Questions 52
retracing the odyssey 53
recommended reading 53
Additional Bibliography 53
3 Black People in Colonial North America, 1526–1763 55
3.1 The Peoples of North America 57 3.1.1 American Indians 57
3.1.2 The Spanish, French, and Dutch 58
3.1.3 The British and Jamestown 59
3.1.4 Africans Arrive in the Chesapeake 60
3.2 Black Servitude in the Chesapeake 61 ProFile Anthony Johnson 62
3.2.1 Race and the Origins of Black Slavery 62
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3.2.2 The Legal Recognition of Chattel Slavery 63
3.2.3 Bacon’s Rebellion and American Slavery 64
3.3 Plantation Slavery, 1700–1750 64 3.3.1 Tobacco Colonies 64
3.3.2 Low-Country Slavery 66 VoiCes A DesCriPtion oF An eiGhteenth- Century VirGiniA PlAntAtion 68
3.3.3 Plantation Technology 69
3.4 Slave Life in Early America 69 3.5 Miscegenation and Creolization 70 3.6 The Origins of African-American Culture 71 3.6.1 The Great Awakening 73
3.6.2 Language, Music, and Folk Literature 74 VoiCes Poem By JuPiter hAmmon 75
3.6.3 The African-American Impact on Colonial Culture 75
3.7 Slavery in the Northern Colonies 76 3.8 Slavery in Spanish Florida and
French Louisiana 77
3.9 African Americans in New Spain’s Northern Borderlands 78
3.10 Black Women in Colonial America 79 3.11 Black Resistance and Rebellion 81
ProFile FrAnCisCo menenDez 83
Conclusion 83
Chapter timeline 84
review Questions 85
retracing the odyssey 85
recommended reading 85
Additional Bibliography 86
4 Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle for Independence, 1763–1783 89
4.1 The Crisis of the British Empire 91 4.2 The Declaration of Independence
and African Americans 93 ProFile CrisPus AttuCks 94
4.2.1 The Impact of the Enlightenment 95
4.2.2 African Americans in the Revolutionary Debate 95
4.3 The Black Enlightenment 96 VoiCes Boston’s slAVes link their FreeDom to AmeriCAn liBerty 97
4.3.1 Phillis Wheatley and Poetry 98
4.3.2 Benjamin Banneker and Science 98 VoiCes Phillis WheAtley on liBerty AnD nAturAl riGhts 99
4.4 African Americans in the War for Independence 100
4.4.1 Black Loyalists 101
4.4.2 Black Patriots 102
4.5 The Revolution and Emancipation 104 4.5.1 The Revolutionary Impact 105
4.5.2 The Revolutionary Promise 107 Conclusion 108
Chapter timeline 109
review Questions 110
retracing the odyssey 111
recommended reading 111
Additional Bibliography 111
5 African Americans in the New Nation, 1783–1820 113
5.1 Forces for Freedom 115 5.1.1 Northern Emancipation 115
5.1.2 The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 118
5.1.3 Antislavery Societies in the North and the Upper South 119
ProFile elizABeth FreemAn 120
5.1.4 Manumission and Self-Purchase 121
5.1.5 The Emergence of a Free Black Class in the South 121
5.2 Forces for Slavery 122 5.2.1 The U.S. Constitution 122
5.2.2 Cotton 124
5.2.3 The Louisiana Purchase and African Americans in the Lower Mississippi valley 124
5.2.4 Conservatism and Racism 125
5.3 The Emergence of Free Black Communities 126
5.3.1 The Origins of Independent Black Churches 127
VoiCes riChArD Allen on the BreAk With st. GeorGe’s ChurCh 128
5.3.2 The First Black Schools 129
5.4 Black Leaders and Choices 130 VoiCes ABsAlom Jones Petitions ConGress on BehAlF oF FuGitiVes FACinG reenslAVement 130
ProFile JAmes Forten 132
5.4.1 Migration 133
5.4.2 Slave Uprisings 133
5.4.3 The White Southern Reaction 135
5.5 The War of 1812 135 5.6 The Missouri Compromise 137
Conclusion 138
Chapter timeline 139
review Questions 140
retracing the odyssey 141
recommended reading 141
Additional Bibliography 141 ■ ConneCtinG the PAst the GreAt AWAkeninG
AnD the BlACk ChurCh 142
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Part II Slavery, Abolition, and the Quest for Freedom: The Coming of the Civil War, 1793–1861 144
6 Life in the Cotton Kingdom, 1793–1861 146
6.1 The Expansion of Slavery 147 6.1.1 Slave Population Growth 148
6.1.2 Ownership of Slaves in the Old South 149
6.2 Slave Labor in Agriculture 150 6.2.1 Tobacco 150
ProFile solomon northuP 151
6.2.2 Rice 152
6.2.3 Sugar 153
6.2.4 Cotton 153
6.2.5 Cotton and Technology 154
6.2.6 Other Crops 155
6.3 House Servants and Skilled Slaves 156 6.3.1 Urban and Industrial Slavery 156
6.4 Punishment 158 VoiCes FreDeriCk DouGlAss on the reADiness oF mAsters to use the WhiP 159
6.5 The Domestic Slave Trade 159 6.6 Slave Families 160
ProFile WilliAm ellison 161
6.6.1 Children 162 VoiCes A slAVeholDer DesCriBes A neW PurChAse 162
6.6.2 Sexual Exploitation 163
6.6.3 Diet 164
6.6.4 Clothing 165
6.6.5 Health 166
6.7 The Socialization of Slaves 166 6.7.1 Religion 167
6.8 The Character of Slavery and Slaves 168 Conclusion 169
Chapter timeline 169
review Questions 170
retracing the odyssey 171
recommended reading 171
Additional Bibliography 171
7 Free Black People in Antebellum America, 1820–1861 173
7.1 Demographics of Freedom 175 7.2 The Jacksonian Era 176 7.3 Limited Freedom in the North 179
7.3.1 Black Laws 179
7.3.2 Disfranchisement 181
7.3.3 Segregation 182
7.4 Black Communities in the Urban North 183 7.4.1 The Black Family 184
7.4.2 Poverty 184
7.4.3 The Northern Black Elite 185
7.4.4 Inventors 185 VoiCes mAriA W. steWArt on the ConDition oF BlACk Workers 186
7.4.5 Professionals 186 ProFile stePhen smith AnD WilliAm WhiPPer, PArtners in Business AnD reForm 187
7.4.6 Artists and Musicians 188
7.4.7 Authors 188
7.5 African-American Institutions 189 7.5.1 Churches 189
7.5.2 Schools 191 VoiCes the Constitution oF the PittsBurGh AFriCAn eDuCAtion soCiety 191
7.5.3 voluntary Associations 192
7.6 Free African Americans in the Upper South 193
7.6.1 Free African Americans in the Deep South 196
7.6.2 Free African Americans in the Far West 197 Conclusion 198
Chapter timeline 198
review Questions 199
retracing the odyssey 200
recommended reading 200
Additional Bibliography 200
8 Opposition to Slavery, 1730–1833 202
8.1 Antislavery Begins in America 203 8.1.1 From Gabriel to Denmark vesey 204
8.2 The Path toward a More Radical Antislavery Movement 206
8.2.1 Slavery and Politics 207
8.2.2 The Second Great Awakening 208
8.2.3 The Benevolent Empire 209
8.3 Colonization 209 8.3.1 African-American Advocates
of Colonization 210
8.3.2 Black Opposition to Colonization 211 VoiCes WilliAm WAtkins oPPoses ColonizAtion 212
8.4 Black Abolitionist Women 212 ProFile mAriA W. steWArt 213
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8.4.1 The Baltimore Alliance 214 VoiCes A BlACk WomAn sPeAks out on the riGht to eDuCAtion 214
8.5 David Walker and Nat Turner 215 ProFile DAViD WAlker 216
Conclusion 218
Chapter timeline 219
review Questions 220
retracing the odyssey 220
recommended reading 220
Additional Bibliography 221
9 Let Your Motto Be Resistance, 1833–1850 222
9.1 A Rising Tide of Racism and violence 223 9.1.1 Antiblack and Antiabolitionist
Riots 224
9.1.2 Texas and the War against Mexico 225
9.2 The Antislavery Movement 226 9.2.1 The American Anti-Slavery Society 226
9.2.2 Black and Women’s Antislavery Societies 227
ProFile soJourner truth 228
9.2.3 Moral Suasion 229
9.3 Black Community Support 230 9.3.1 The Black Convention Movement 230
9.3.2 Black Churches in the Antislavery Cause 231
9.3.3 Black Newspapers 231 VoiCes FreDeriCk DouGlAss DesCriBes An AWkWArD situAtion 232
9.4 The American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and the Liberty Party 232
ProFile henry hiGhlAnD GArnet 233
9.5 A More Aggressive Abolitionism 234 9.5.1 The Amistad and the Creole 235
9.5.2 The Underground Railroad 235
9.5.3 Technology and the Underground Railroad 237
9.5.4 Canada West 237
9.6 Black Militancy 238 9.6.1 Frederick Douglass 238
9.6.2 Revival of Black Nationalism 239 VoiCes mArtin r. DelAny DesCriBes his Vision oF A BlACk nAtion 240
Conclusion 241
Chapter timeline 242
review Questions 242
retracing the odyssey 243
recommended reading 243
Additional Bibliography 243
10 “And Black People Were at the Heart of It”: The United States Disunites Over Slavery, 1846–1861 245
10.1 The Lure of the West 247 10.1.1 Free Labor versus Slave Labor 247
10.1.2 The Wilmot Proviso 247
10.1.3 African Americans and the Gold Rush 248
10.1.4 California and the Compromise of 1850 249
10.1.5 Fugitive Slave Laws 249 VoiCes AFriCAn AmeriCAns resPonD to the FuGitiVe slAVe lAW 251
10.2 Fugitive Slaves 252 10.2.1 William and Ellen Craft 253
ProFile mAry ellen PleAsAnt 253
10.2.2 Shadrach Minkins 254
10.2.3 The Battle at Christiana 254
10.2.4 Anthony Burns 255
10.2.5 Margaret Garner 255 ProFile thomAs sims, A FuGitiVe slAVe 256
10.2.6 Freedom in Canada 257
10.2.7 The Rochester Convention, 1853 257
10.2.8 Nativism and the Know-Nothings 257
10.2.9 Uncle Tom’s Cabin 258
10.2.10 The Kansas-Nebraska Act 259
10.2.11 Preston Brooks Attacks Charles Sumner 260
10.3 The Dred Scott Decision 261 10.3.1 Questions for the Court 261
10.3.2 Reaction to the Dred Scott Decision 262
10.3.3 White Northerners and Black Americans 263
10.3.4 The Lincoln–Douglas Debates 263
10.3.5 Abraham Lincoln and Black People 263 ProFile mArtin DelAny 264
10.4 John Brown and the Raid on Harpers Ferry 265
10.4.1 Planning the Raid 265
10.4.2 The Raid 266
10.4.3 The Reaction 266
10.5 The Election of Abraham Lincoln 267 10.5.1 Black People Respond to Lincoln’s
Election 268
10.5.2 Disunion 268 Conclusion 270
Chapter timeline 270
review Questions 272
retracing the odyssey 272
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recommended reading 272
Additional Bibliography 273 ■ ConneCtinG the PAst Narrative
of the Life of frederick dougLass AnD BlACk AutoBioGrAPhy 274
Part III The Civil War, Emancipation, and Black Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution 276
11 Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War, 1861–1865 278
11.1 Lincoln’s Aims 280 11.2 Black Men volunteer and Are Rejected 280 11.2.1 Union Policies toward Confederate
Slaves 280
11.2.2 “Contraband” 281
11.2.3 Lincoln’s Initial Position 282
11.2.4 Lincoln Moves toward Emancipation 282
11.2.5 Lincoln Delays Emancipation 283
11.2.6 Black People Reject Colonization 283
11.2.7 The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation 284
11.2.8 Northern Reaction to Emancipation 284
11.2.9 Political Opposition to Emancipation 285
11.3 The Emancipation Proclamation 285 11.3.1 Limits of the Proclamation 286
11.3.2 Effects of the Proclamation on the South 287 ProFile elizABeth keCkley 288
11.4 Black Men Fight for the Union 289 11.4.1 The First South Carolina volunteers 289
11.4.2 The Louisiana Native Guards 291
11.4.3 The Second South Carolina volunteers 291
11.4.4 The 54th Massachusetts Regiment 292
11.4.5 Black Soldiers Confront Discrimination 293
11.4.6 Black Men in Combat 294
11.4.7 The Assault on Battery Wagner 294 VoiCes leWis DouGlAss DesCriBes the FiGhtinG At BAttery WAGner 296
11.4.8 Olustee 296
11.4.9 The Crater 296
11.4.10 The Confederate Reaction to Black Soldiers 296
11.4.11 The Abuse and Murder of Black Troops 297
11.4.12 The Fort Pillow Massacre 297
11.4.13 Black Men in the Union Navy 298 VoiCes A BlACk nurse on the horrors oF WAr AnD the sACriFiCe oF BlACk solDiers 298
11.4.14 Liberators, Spies, and Guides 299 ProFile hArriet tuBmAn 300
11.4.15 violent Opposition to Black People 301
11.4.16 Union Troops and Slaves 302
11.4.17 Refugees 302
11.5 Black People and the Confederacy 302 11.5.1 Skilled and Unskilled Slaves
in Southern Industry 302
11.5.2 The Impressment of Black People 303
11.5.3 Confederates Enslave Free Black People 303
11.5.4 Black Confederates 304
11.5.5 Personal Servants 304
11.5.6 Black Men Fighting for the South 305
11.5.7 Black Opposition to the Confederacy 306
11.5.8 The Confederate Debate on Black Troops 306 Conclusion 308
Chapter timeline 308
review Questions 310
retracing the odyssey 310
recommended reading 310
Additional Bibliography 311
12 The Meaning of Freedom: The Promise of Reconstruction, 1865–1868 313
12.1 The End of Slavery 314 12.1.1 Differing Reactions of Former Slaves 315
12.1.2 Reuniting Black Families 315
12.2 Land 316 12.2.1 Special Field Order #15 316
12.2.2 The Port Royal Experiment 317
12.2.3 The Freedmen’s Bureau 317
12.2.4 Southern Homestead Act 319 VoiCes JourDon AnDerson’s letter to his Former mAster 319
12.2.5 Sharecropping 320
12.2.6 The Black Church 320 VoiCes A FreeDmen’s BureAu Commissioner tells FreeD PeoPle WhAt FreeDom meAns 322
12.2.7 Class and Status 323
12.3 Education 324 12.3.1 Black Teachers 325
12.3.2 Black Colleges 326
12.3.3 Response of White Southerners 326
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ProFile ChArlotte e. rAy 327
VoiCes A northern BlACk WomAn on teAChinG FreeDmen 327
12.4 violence 328 12.4.1 The Crusade for Political
and Civil Rights 329
12.5 Presidential Reconstruction under Andrew Johnson 329
12.5.1 Black Codes 330
12.5.2 Black Conventions 330
12.5.3 The Radical Republicans 331
12.5.4 Radical Proposals 332
12.5.5 The Freedmen’s Bureau Bill and the Civil Rights Bill 332
12.5.6 Johnson’s vetoes 332 ProFile AAron A. BrADley 333
12.5.7 The Fourteenth Amendment 334
12.5.8 Radical Reconstruction 335
12.5.9 Universal Manhood Suffrage 335
12.5.10 Black Politics 335
12.5.11 Sit-Ins and Strikes 336
12.5.12 The Reaction of White Southerners 336 Conclusion 337
Chapter timeline 337
review Questions 339
retracing the odyssey 339
recommended reading 339
Additional Bibliography 340
13 The Meaning of Freedom: The Failure of Reconstruction, 1868–1877 342
13.1 Constitutional Conventions 343 13.1.1 Elections 344
13.1.2 Black Political Leaders 344 ProFile the GiBBs Brothers 345
13.2 The Issues 346 13.2.1 Education and Social Welfare 346
13.2.2 Civil Rights 347
13.2.3 Economic Issues 348
13.2.4 Land 348
13.2.5 Business and Industry 348
13.2.6 Black Politicians: An Evaluation 349
13.2.7 Republican Factionalism 349
13.2.8 Opposition 349 ProFile the rollin sisters 350
13.3 The Ku Klux Klan 351 VoiCes An APPeAl For helP AGAinst the klAn 353
13.3.1 The West 354
13.4 The Fifteenth Amendment 354 13.4.1 The Enforcement Acts 355
13.4.2 The North and Reconstruction 355
13.4.3 The Freedmen’s Bank 356
13.4.4 The Civil Rights Act of 1875 356 VoiCes BlACk leADers suPPort the PAssAGe oF A CiVil riGhts ACt 357
13.5 The End of Reconstruction 358 13.5.1 violent Redemption and the
Colfax Massacre 358
13.5.2 The Shotgun Policy 359
13.5.3 The Hamburg Massacre and the Ellenton Riot 359
13.5.4 The “Compromise” of 1877 360 Conclusion 361
Chapter timeline 362
review Questions 363
retracing the odyssey 364
recommended reading 364
Additional Bibliography 364 ■ ConneCtinG the PAst VotinG
AnD PolitiCs 366
Part IV Searching for Safe Spaces 368
14 White Supremacy Triumphant: African Americans in the Late Nineteenth Century, 1877–1895 370
14.1 Politics 372 14.1.1 Black Congressmen 373
14.1.2 Democrats and Farmer Discontent 373
14.1.3 The Colored Farmers’ Alliance 375
14.1.4 The Populist Party 375
14.2 Disfranchisement 376 14.2.1 Evading the Fifteenth Amendment 376
14.2.2 Mississippi 377
14.2.3 South Carolina 377
14.2.4 The Grandfather Clause 377
14.2.5 The “Force Bill” 378
14.3 Segregation 379 14.3.1 Jim Crow 379
14.3.2 Segregation on the Railroads 379
14.3.3 Plessy v. Ferguson 380
14.3.4 Streetcar Segregation 380
14.3.5 Segregation Proliferates 381 VoiCes mAJority AnD DissentinG oPinions on PLessy v. fergusoN 381
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14.3.6 Racial Etiquette 382
14.4 violence 382 14.4.1 Washington County, Texas 382
14.4.2 The Phoenix Riot 383
14.4.3 The Wilmington Riot 383
14.4.4 The New Orleans Riot 383
14.4.5 Lynching 384
14.4.6 Rape 385
14.4.7 Migration 385 ProFile iDA Wells BArnett 385
14.4.8 The Liberian Exodus 387
14.4.9 The Exodusters 387
14.4.10 Migration within the South 389
14.4.11 Black Farm Families 389
14.4.12 Cultivating Cotton 390
14.4.13 Sharecroppers 391 VoiCes CAsh AnD DeBt For the BlACk Cotton FArmer 392
14.4.14 Black Landowners 392
14.4.15 White Resentment of Black Success 393
14.5 African Americans and the Legal System 393 14.5.1 Segregated Justice 393
ProFile Johnson C. WhittAker 395
14.5.2 The Convict Lease System: Slavery by Another Name 395 Conclusion 396
Chapter timeline 397
review Questions 398
retracing the odyssey 398
recommended reading 398
Additional Bibliography 399
15 African Americans Challenge White Supremacy, 1877–1918 401
15.1 Social Darwinism 403 15.2 Education and Schools: The Issues 403 15.2.1 Segregated Schools 404
15.2.2 The Hampton Model 405
15.2.3 Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Model 405
15.2.4 Critics of the Tuskegee Model 407 VoiCes thomAs e. miller AnD the mission oF the BlACk lAnD-GrAnt ColleGe 408
15.3 Church and Religion 408 15.3.1 The Church as Solace and Escape 410
15.3.2 The Holiness Movement and the Pentecostal Church 410
15.3.3 Roman Catholics and Episcopalians 411 ProFile henry mCneAl turner 412
15.4 Red versus Black: The Buffalo Soldiers 413 15.4.1 Discrimination in the Army 413
15.4.2 The Buffalo Soldiers in Combat 414
15.4.3 Civilian Hostility to Black Soldiers 415
15.4.4 Brownsville 416
15.4.5 African Americans in the Navy 416
15.4.6 The Black Cowboys 416
15.4.7 The Black Cowgirls 417
15.4.8 The Spanish-American War 417
15.4.9 Black Officers 418
15.4.10 “A Splendid Little War” 419 VoiCes BlACk men in BAttle in CuBA 419
15.5 African Americans and Their Role in the American Economy 421
15.5.1 African Americans and the World’s Columbian Exposition 421
15.5.2 Obstacles and Opportunities for Employment among African Americans 422
15.5.3 African Americans and Labor 423
15.5.4 Black Professionals 424 ProFile mAGGie lenA WAlker 425
15.5.5 Music 427 ProFile A mAn AnD his horse: Dr. WilliAm key AnD BeAutiFul Jim key 427
15.5.6 Sports 430 Conclusion 432
Chapter timeline 433
review Questions 434
retracing the odyssey 435
recommended reading 435
Additional Bibliography 436
16 Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African Americans in the Early Twentieth Century, 1895–1925 438
16.1 Booker T. Washington’s Approach 440 16.1.1 Washington’s Influence 441
16.1.2 The Tuskegee Machine 442
16.1.3 Opposition to Washington 443
16.2 W. E. B. Du Bois 443 VoiCes W. e. B. Du Bois on BeinG BlACk in AmeriCA 444
16.2.1 The Du Bois Critique of Washington 444
16.2.2 The Souls of Black Folk 445
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16.2.3 The Talented Tenth 446
16.2.4 The Niagara Movement 446
16.2.5 The NAACP 447
16.2.6 Using the System 447
16.2.7 Du Bois and The Crisis 447 ProFile mAry ChurCh terrell 448
16.2.8 Washington versus the NAACP 449
16.2.9 The Urban League 450
16.3 Black Women and the Club Movement 450 16.3.1 The NACW: “Lifting as
We Climb” 451
16.3.2 Phillis Wheatley Clubs 451 ProFile JAne eDnA hunter AnD the Phillis WheAtley AssoCiAtion 452
16.3.3 Anna Julia Cooper and Black Feminism 453
16.3.4 Women’s Suffrage 453
16.4 The Black Elite 454 16.4.1 The American Negro Academy 454
16.4.2 The Upper Class 454
16.4.3 Fraternities and Sororities 455
16.4.4 African-American Inventors 455
16.4.5 Presidential Politics 456 ProFile GeorGe WAshinGton CArVer AnD ernest eVerett Just 457
16.5 Black Men and the Military in World War I 458
16.5.1 The Punitive Expedition to Mexico 458
16.5.2 World War I 458
16.5.3 Black Troops and Officers 459
16.5.4 Discrimination and Its Effects 459
16.5.5 Du Bois’s Disappointment 461
16.6 Race Riots 461 16.6.1 Atlanta, 1906 463
16.6.2 Springfield, 1908 463
16.6.3 East St. Louis, 1917 464
16.6.4 Houston, 1917 464
16.6.5 Chicago, 1919 465
16.6.6 Elaine, 1919 466
16.6.7 Tulsa, 1921 466
16.6.8 Rosewood, 1923 467
16.7 The Great Migration 467 16.7.1 Why Migrate? 467
16.7.2 Destinations 469
16.7.3 Migration from the Caribbean 470
16.7.4 Northern Communities 471 VoiCes A miGrAnt to the north Writes home 471
Conclusion 475
Chapter timeline 475
review Questions 477
retracing the odyssey 477
recommended reading 477
Additional Bibliography 478
17 African Americans and the 1920s, 1918–1929 481
17.1 varieties of Racism 483 17.1.1 Scientific Racism 484
17.1.2 The Birth of a Nation 484
17.1.3 The Ku Klux Klan 485
17.2 Protest, Pride, and Pan-Africanism: Black Organizations in the 1920s 485
17.2.1 The NAACP 486 VoiCes the neGro nAtionAl Anthem: “liFt eVery VoiCe AnD sinG” 486
ProFile JAmes WelDon Johnson 487
17.2.2 “Up You Mighty Race”: Marcus Garvey and the UNIA 488
VoiCes mArCus GArVey APPeAls For A neW AFriCAn nAtion 491
17.2.3 Amy Jacques Garvey 491
17.2.4 The African Blood Brotherhood 492
17.2.5 Hubert Harrison 492
17.2.6 Pan-Africanism 493
17.3 Labor 494 17.3.1 The Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters 495
17.3.2 A. Philip Randolph 496
17.4 The Harlem Renaissance 497 17.4.1 Before Harlem 497
17.4.2 Writers and Artists 498
17.4.3 White People and the Harlem Renaissance 501
17.4.4 Harlem and the Jazz Age 503
17.4.5 Song, Dance, and Stage 504 ProFile Bessie smith 505
17.5 Sports 506 17.5.1 Rube Foster 506
17.5.2 College Sports 507 Conclusion 507
Chapter timeline 508
review Questions 509
retracing the odyssey 510
recommended reading 510
Additional Bibliography 510 ■ ConneCtinG the PAst miGrAtion 512
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Part V The Great Depression and World War II 514
18 Black Protest, Great Depression, and the New Deals, 1929–1940 516
18.1 The Cataclysm, 1929–1933 518 18.1.1 Harder Times for Black America 518
18.1.2 Black Businesses in the Depression: Collapse and Survival 520
18.1.3 The Failure of Relief 522
18.2 Black Protest during the Great Depression 522 18.2.1 The NAACP and Civil Rights
Struggles 523
18.2.2 Du Bois and the “voluntary Segregation” Controversy 523
18.2.3 Legal Battles against Discrimination in Education and voting 524
18.2.4 Black Texans Fight for Educational and voting Rights 525
18.2.5 Black Women Community Organizers 526
18.3 African Americans and the New Deal Era 527 18.3.1 Roosevelt and the First New Deal,
1933–1935 528 VoiCes A BlACk shAreCroPPer DetAils ABuse in the ADministrAtion oF AGriCulturAl relieF 529
18.3.2 Black Officials and the First New Deal 530
18.4 The Rise of Black Social Scientists 531 ProFile mAry mCleoD Bethune 532
18.4.1 Social Scientists and the New Deal 533
18.4.2 The Second New Deal 533 ProFile roBert C. WeAVer 534
18.4.3 The Rise of Black Politicians 534
18.4.4 Black Americans and the Democratic Party 535
18.4.5 The WPA and Black America 535
18.5 Misuses of Medical Science: The Tuskegee Study 537
18.6 Organized Labor and Black America 538 VoiCes A. PhiliP rAnDolPh insPires A younG BlACk ACtiVist 539
18.7 The Communist Party and African Americans 539
18.7.1 The International Labor Defense and the “Scottsboro Boys” 539
18.7.2 Debating Communist Leadership 540 ProFile AnGelo hernDon 542
ProFile rAlPh WAlDo ellison 543
Conclusion 544
Chapter timeline 544
review Questions 545
retracing the odyssey 545
recommended reading 546
Additional Bibliography 546
19 Meanings of Freedom: Black Culture and Society, 1930–1950 550
19.1 Black Culture in a Midwestern City 552 19.2 The Black Culture Industry and
American Racism 553
19.3 Black Music Culture: From Swing to Bebop 554
ProFile ChArlie PArker 555
19.4 Popular Culture for the Masses: Comic Strips, Radio, and Movies 557
19.4.1 The Comics 557
19.4.2 Radio and Jazz Musicians and Technological Change 557
ProFile Duke ellinGton 558
19.4.3 Radio and Black Disc Jockeys 558
19.4.4 Radio and Race 559
19.4.5 Radio and Destination Freedom 560
19.4.6 A Black Filmmaker: Oscar Micheaux 561
19.4.7 Black Hollywood: Race and Gender 561
19.5 The Black Chicago Renaissance 562 VoiCes mArGAret WAlker on BlACk Culture 564
19.5.1 Gospel in Chicago: Thomas A. Dorsey 566
ProFile lAnGston huGhes 567
19.5.2 Chicago in Dance and Song: Katherine Dunham and Billie Holiday 568
ProFile Billie holiDAy AnD “strAnGe Fruit” 569
19.6 Black visual Art 570 19.7 Black Literature 571 19.7.1 Richard Wright’s Native Son 571
19.7.2 James Baldwin Challenges Wright 572
19.7.3 Ralph Ellison and Invisible Man 573
19.8 African Americans in Sports 573 19.8.1 Jesse Owens and Joe Louis 573
19.8.2 Breaking the Color Barrier in Baseball 574
19.9 Black Religious Culture 575
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19.9.1 Father Divine and the Peace Mission Movement 576 Conclusion 576
Chapter timeline 577
review Questions 579
retracing the odyssey 579
recommended reading 580
Additional Bibliography 580
20 The World War II Era and the Seeds of a Revolution, 1940–1950 583
20.1 On the Eve of War, 1936–1941 585 20.1.1 African Americans and the Emerging
International Crisis 586
20.1.2 A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington Movement 587
20.1.3 Executive Order 8802 588
20.2 Race and the U.S. Armed Forces 589 20.2.1 Institutional Racism in the
American Military 589
20.2.2 The Costs of Military Discrimination 590
ProFile steVen roBinson AnD the montForD Point mArines 591
20.2.3 Port Chicago “Mutiny” 592
20.2.4 Soldiers and Civilians Protest Military Discrimination 592
ProFile WilliAm h. hAstie 593
20.2.5 Black Women in the Struggle to Desegregate the Military 594
20.2.6 The Beginning of Military Desegregation 594
ProFile mABel k. stAuPers 595
VoiCes sePArAte But eQuAl trAininG For BlACk Army nurses? 596
20.3 The Tuskegee Airmen 597 20.3.1 Technology: The Tuskegee Planes 597
VoiCes A tuskeGee AirmAn rememBers 598
20.3.2 The Transformation of Black Soldiers 599
20.4 African Americans on the Home Front 600 20.4.1 Black Workers: From Farm to Factory 600
20.4.2 The FEPC during the War 601
20.4.3 Anatomy of a Race Riot: Detroit, 1943 601
20.4.4 The G.I. Bill of Rights and Black veterans 602
20.4.5 Old and New Protest Groups on the Home Front 603
ProFile BAyArD rustin 604
20.4.6 Post–World War II Racial violence 605
20.5 The Cold War and International Politics 607 20.5.1 African Americans in World Affairs:
W. E. B. Du Bois and Ralph Bunche 608
20.5.2 Anticommunism at Home 608
20.5.3 Paul Robeson 609
20.5.4 Henry Wallace and the 1948 Presidential Election 609
20.5.5 Desegregating the Armed Forces 610 Conclusion 611
Chapter timeline 612
review Questions 613
retracing the odyssey 614
recommended reading 614
Additional Bibliography 614 ■ ConneCtinG the PAst the siGniFiCAnCe
oF the DeseGreGAtion oF the u.s. militAry 616
Part VI The Black Revolution 618
21 The Long Freedom Movement, 1950–1970 620
21.1 The 1950s: Prejudice and Protest 622 21.2 The Road to Brown 623 21.2.1 Constance Baker Motley and Black
Lawyers in the South 623
21.2.2 Brown and the Coming Revolution 626
21.3 Challenges to Brown 628 21.3.1 White Resistance 628
21.3.2 The Lynching of Emmett Till 629
21.4 New Forms of Protest: The Montgomery Bus Boycott 630
21.4.1 The Roots of Revolution 630 VoiCes letter oF the montGomery Women’s PolitiCAl CounCil to mAyor W. A. GAyle 631
21.4.2 Rosa Parks 632
21.4.3 Montgomery Improvement Association 632
21.4.4 Martin Luther King, Jr. 632 ProFile rosA louise mCCAuley PArks 633
21.4.5 Walking for Freedom 634
21.4.6 Friends in the North 634
21.4.7 victory 635 ProFile ClArA luPer: ViCtory in oklAhomA 636
21.5 No Easy Road to Freedom: The 1960s 637 21.5.1 Martin Luther King, Jr.
and the SCLC 637
21.5.2 Civil Rights Act of 1957 637
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21.5.3 The Little Rock Nine 637
21.6 Black Youth Stand Up by Sitting Down 638 21.6.1 Sit-Ins: Greensboro, Nashville, Atlanta 639
21.6.2 The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 640
21.6.3 Freedom Rides 640 ProFile roBert PArris moses 642
21.7 A Sight to Be Seen: The Movement at High Tide 643
21.7.1 The Election of 1960 643
21.7.2 The Kennedy Administration and the Civil Rights Movement 643
21.7.3 voter Registration Projects 644
21.7.4 The Albany Movement 644 ProFile FAnnie lou hAmer 645
21.7.5 The Birmingham Confrontation 645
21.8 A Hard victory 647 21.8.1 The March on Washington 647
21.8.2 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 648
21.8.3 Mississippi Freedom Summer 651
21.8.4 The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party 652
21.8.5 Selma and the voting Rights Act of 1965 653
ProFile Dorothy irene heiGht 655
Conclusion 656
Chapter timeline 656
review Questions 659
retracing the odyssey 659
recommended reading 659
Additional Bibliography 660
22 Black Nationalism, Black Power, and Black Arts, 1965–1980 662
22.1 The Rise of Black Nationalism 664 22.1.1 The Nation of Islam 666
22.1.2 Malcolm X’s New Departure 668
22.1.3 Stokely Carmichael and Black Power 668
22.1.4 The Black Panther Party 669
22.1.5 The FBI’s COINTELPRO and Police Repression 670
VoiCes the BlACk PAnther PArty PlAtForm 671
22.1.6 Prisoners’ Rights 671
22.2 Black Urban Rebellions in the 1960s 672 22.2.1 Watts 673
22.2.2 Newark 673
22.2.3 Detroit 673
22.2.4 The Kerner Commission 674
22.2.5 Difficulties in Creating the Great Society 675
22.3 Johnson and King: The War in vietnam 676 22.3.1 Black Americans and the
vietnam War 677
22.3.2 Project 100,000 677
22.3.3 Johnson: vietnam Destroys the Great Society 677
VoiCes “homosexuAls Are not enemies oF the PeoPle” BlACk PAnther PArty FounDer, huey P. neWton 678
22.3.4 King: Searching for a New Strategy 679
22.3.5 King on the vietnam War 680
22.3.6 The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 680
ProFile muhAmmAD Ali 681
22.4 The Black Arts Movement and Black Consciousness 682
22.4.1 Poetry and Theater 684
22.4.2 Music 684 ProFile lorrAine hAnsBerry 685
22.4.3 The Black Student Movement: A Second Phase 687
22.4.4 The Orangeburg Massacre 687
22.4.5 Black Studies 687
22.5 The Presidential Election of 1968 and Richard Nixon 689
22.5.1 The “Moynihan Report” 690
22.5.2 Busing 691
22.5.3 Nixon and the War 691
22.6 The Rise of Black Elected Officials 692 22.6.1 The Gary Convention and the Black
Political Agenda 693
22.6.2 Shirley Chisholm: “I Am the People’s Politician” 694
22.6.3 Black People Gain Local Offices 694 VoiCes shirley Chisholm’s sPeeCh to the u.s. house oF rePresentAtiVes 695
22.6.4 Economic Downturn 695
22.6.5 Black Americans and the Carter Presidency 696
22.6.6 Black Appointees 697
22.6.7 Carter’s Domestic Policies 697 Conclusion 697
Chapter timeline 698
review Questions 700
retracing the odyssey 700
recommended reading 701
Additional Bibliography 701
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23 Black Politics and President Barack Obama, 1980–2016 704
23.1 Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition 706
23.1.1 Black voters Embrace President Bill Clinton 707
23.1.2 The Present Status of Black Politics 708
23.2 Ronald Reagan and the Conservative Reaction 709
23.2.1 The King Holiday 709
23.2.2 Dismantling the Great Society 710
23.3 Black Conservatives 710 23.3.1 The Thomas–Hill Controversy 711
VoiCes BlACk Women in DeFense oF themselVes 712
23.4 Debating the “Old” and the “New” Civil Rights 713
23.4.1 Affirmative Action 713
23.4.2 The Backlash 714
23.5 Black Political Activism at the End of the Twentieth Century 717
23.5.1 Reparations 717
23.5.2 TransAfrica and Black Internationalism 718
23.6 The Rise in Black Incarceration 719 23.6.1 Policing the Black Community 719
23.6.2 Black Men and Police Brutality: Where Is the Justice? 720
23.6.3 Human Rights in America 720
23.7 Black Politics, 1992–2001: The Clinton Presidency 722
23.7.1 “It’s the Economy, Stupid!” 723
23.7.2 Welfare Reform, Mass Incarceration, and the Black Family 723
23.7.3 Black Politics in the Clinton Era 724
23.7.4 The Contested 2000 Election 725
23.7.5 Bush v. Gore 725
23.8 Republican Triumph 726 23.8.1 George W. Bush’s Black Cabinet 726
23.8.2 September 11, 2001 728
23.8.3 War 728
23.8.4 Black Politics in the Bush Era 728
23.8.5 Bush’s Second Term 729
23.8.6 The Iraq War 729
23.8.7 Hurricane Katrina and the Destruction of Black New Orleans 730
23.9 Barack Obama, President of the United States, 2008–2016 731
23.9.1 Obama versus McCain 731
23.9.2 Obama versus Romney 733 ProFile BArACk oBAmA 734
ProFile miChelle lAVAuGhn roBinson oBAmA 736
23.9.3 Factors Affecting the Elections of 2008 and 2012 736
23.9.4 The Consequential Presidency of Barack Obama 737
23.9.5 Twenty-Three Mass Shootings 739
23.10 Black Lives Matter 740 Conclusion 742
Chapter timeline 743
review Questions 745
retracing the odyssey 746
recommended reading 746
Additional Bibliography 746
24 African Americans End the Twentieth Century and Enter into the Twenty-First Century, 1980–2016 749
24.1 Progress and Poverty: Income, Education, and Health 751
24.1.1 High-Achieving African Americans 751
24.1.2 African Americans’ Quest for Economic Security 752
24.1.3 Black Americans in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics 753
ProFile mArk DeAn 754
24.2 The Persistence of Black Poverty 755 24.2.1 Deindustrialization and
Black Oakland 756
24.2.2 Racial Incarceration 757
24.2.3 Black Education a Half-Century after Brown 758
24.2.4 The Black Health Gap 759
24.3 African Americans at the Center of Art and Culture 760
ProFile miChAel JACkson 762
24.4 The Hip-Hop Nation 763 24.4.1 Origins of a New Music: A Generation
Defines Itself 763
24.4.2 Rap Music Goes Mainstream 764
24.4.3 Gangsta Rap 764
24.5 African-American Intellectuals 765 24.5.1 African-American Studies Come
of Age 766
24.6 Black Religion at the Dawn of the Millennium 767
24.6.1 Black Christians on the Front Line 768
24.6.2 Tensions in the Black Church 769
24.6.3 Black Muslims 770
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24.7 Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam 770 24.7.1 Millennium Marches 772
24.8 Complicating Black Identity in the Twenty-First Century 773
24.8.1 Immigration and African Americans 774
24.8.2 Black Feminism 775
24.8.3 Gay and Lesbian African Americans 776 VoiCes “our nAtionAl Virtues”: u.s. Attorney GenerAl lorettA e. lynCh on lBGtQ riGhts 777
Conclusion 778
Chapter timeline 778
review Questions 781
retracing the odyssey 781
recommended reading 781
Additional Bibliography 782 ■ ConneCtinG the PAst the siGniFiCAnCe
oF BlACk Culture 784
Epilogue 786 The Declaration of Independence A-1 The Constitution of the United States of America A-3 The Emancipation Proclamation A-13 Key Provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 A-14 Key Provisions of the voting Rights Act of 1965 A-19 Glossary Key Terms and Concepts G-1 Presidents and vice Presidents of the United States P-1 Historically Black Four-Year Colleges and Universities U-1 Photo and Text Credits C-1 Index I-1
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1–1 Africa: Climatic Regions and Early Sites 6 1–2 Ancient Egypt and Nubia 8 1–3 The Empires of Ghana and Mali 11 1–4 West and Central Africa, c. 1500 14 1–5 Trans-Saharan Trade Routes 17 2–1 The Atlantic and Islamic Slave Trades 32 2–2 Slave Colonies of the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Centuries 33
2–3 Atlantic Trade Among the Americas, Great Britain, and West Africa During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 35
3–1 Regions of Colonial North America, 1683–1763 67 4–1 European Claims in North America,
1750 (Left) and 1763 (Right) 91
4–2 Major Battles of the American War for Independence, Indicating Those in Which Black Troops Participated 101
4–3 The Resettlement of Black Loyalists After the American War for Independence 106
4–4 North America, 1783 109
5–1 Emancipation and Slavery in the Early Republic 116
5–2 The War of 1812 136 5–3 The Missouri Compromise of 1820 138 6–1 Cotton Production in the South, 1820–1860 148 6–2 Slave Population, 1820–1860 150 6–3 Agriculture, Industry, and Slavery in the
Old South, 1850 152
6–4 Population Percentages in the Southern States, 1850 157
7–1 The Slave, Free Black, and White People of the United States in 1830 175
7–2 Transportation Revolution 178
8–1 Major Slave Conspiracies and Uprisings, 1800–1831 205
8–2 The Founding of Liberia 210 9–1 Antiabolitionist and Antiblack Riots during
the Antebellum Period 225
9–2 The Underground Railroad 236 10–1 The Compromise of 1850 250 10–2 The Kansas-Nebraska Act 260 10–3 The Election of 1860 268 11–1 Effects of the Emancipation Proclamation 286 11–2 The Course of the Civil War 290 12–1 The Effect of Sharecropping on the
Southern Plantation: The Barrow Plantation, Oglethorpe County, Georgia 321
12–2 Congressional Reconstruction 335 13–1 Dates of Readmission of Southern States
to the Union and Reestablishment of Democratic Party Control 358
13–2 The Election of 1876 361 14–1 African-American Population of Western
Territories and States, 1880–1900 388
15–1 Military Posts Where Black Troops Served, 1866–1917 414
16–1 Major Race Riots, 1900–1923 462 16–2 The Great Migration and the Distribution
of the African-American Population in 1920 470
16–3 The Expansion of Black Harlem, 1911–1930 474 21–1 The Effect of the voting Rights Act of 1965 654 23–1 Election of 2008 732 23–2 Election of 2012 737 24–1 Black Unemployment by State:
2011 Annual Averages 757
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2–1 Estimated Annual Exports of Slaves from Western Africa to the Americas, 1500–1700 31
3–1 Africans Brought as Slaves to British North America, 1701–1775 65
3–2 Africans as a Percentage of the Total Population of the British American Colonies, 1650–1770 76
4–1 The Free Black Population of the British North American Colonies in 1750 and of the United States in 1790 and 1800 105
5–1 Distribution of the Southern Slave Population, 1800–1860 125
6–1 Cotton Exports as a Percentage of All U.S. Exports, 1800–1860 153
7–1 The Free Black, Slave, and White Populations of the United States in 1820 and 1860 176
7–2 The Free Black, Slave, and White Populations by Region, 1860 177
9–1 Mob violence in the United States, 1812–1849 224 14–1 African-American Representation in Congress,
1867–1900 373
14–2 Lynching in the United States, 1889–1932 384 15–1 Black and White Illiteracy in the United
States and the Southern States, 1880–1900 404
15–2 Church Affiliation among Southern Black People, 1890 409
17–1 Black Workers by Major Industrial Group, 1920 494
17–2 Black and White Workers by Skill Level, 1920 495 18–1 Unemployment, 1925–1945 518 24–1 Median Income of Black, Ethnic, and White
Households, 1967–2011 755
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5–1 Slave Populations in the Mid-Atlantic States, 1790–1860 117
6–1 U.S. Slave Population, 1820 and 1860 149 7–1 Black Population in the States of the
Old Northwest, 1800–1840 180
7–2 Free Black Population of Selected Cities, 1800–1850 183
13–1 African-American Population and Officeholding During Reconstruction in the States Subject to Congressional Reconstruction 344
14–1 Black Members of the U.S. Congress, 1860–1901 374
15–1 South Carolina’s Black and White Public Schools, 1908–1909 404
16–1 Black Population Growth in Selected Northern Cities, 1910–1920 468
16–2 African-American Migration from the South 468
18–1 Demographic Shifts: The Second Great Migration, 1930–1950 519
18–2 Median Income of Black Families Compared to the Median Income of White Families for Selected Cities, 1935–1936 520
22–1 Black Power Politics: The Election of Black Mayors, 1967–1990 693
23–1 2012 Election Results: voting Demographics 738 23–2 African-American Participants in U.S.
Presidential Inaugurations 738
24–1 Black Children under Age 18 and Their Living Arrangements, 1960–2015 (Numbers in Thousands) 756
24–2 Rates of Black Incarceration 758 24–3 Unadjusted Numbers of Diagnosed Cases
of Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIv)/ Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), per 100,000 in the United States, by Race and Year 759
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Preface
One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled striv-ings; two warring ideals in one dark body.” So wrote W. E. B. Du Bois in 1897. African-American his- tory, Du Bois maintained, was the history of this double- consciousness. Black people have always been part of the American nation that they helped to build. But they have also been a nation unto themselves, with their own expe- riences, culture, and aspirations. African-American his- tory cannot be understood except in the broader context of American history. Likewise, American history cannot be understood without African- American history.
Since Du Bois’s time, our understanding of both African-American and American history has been compli- cated and enriched by a growing appreciation of the role of class and gender in shaping human societies. We are also increasingly aware of the complexity of racial expe- riences in American history. Even in times of great racial polarity, some white people have empathized with black people and some black people have identified with white interests.
It is in light of these insights that The African-American Odyssey tells the story of African Americans. That story begins in Africa, where the people who were to become African Americans began their long, turbulent, and dif- ficult journey, a journey marked by sustained suffering as well as perseverance, bravery, and achievement. It includes the rich culture—at once splendidly distinctive and tightly intertwined with a broader American culture— that African Americans have nurtured throughout their history. And it includes the many-faceted quest for free- dom in which African Americans have sought to counter white oppression and racism with the egalitarian spirit of the Declaration of Independence that American society professes to embody.
Nurtured by black historian Carter G. Woodson dur- ing the early decades of the twentieth century, African- American history has, since the 1950s, blossomed as a field of study. Books and articles have been written on almost every facet of black life. Yet The African-American Odyssey is the first comprehensive college textbook of the African- American experience. It draws on recent research to present black history in a clear and direct manner, within a broad social, cultural, and political framework. It also provides thorough coverage of African-American women as active shapers of that history.
The African-American Odyssey balances accounts of the actions of African- American leaders with investigations
of the lives of ordinary men and women in black com- munities. This community focus makes this a history of a people rather than an account of a few extraordinary indi- viduals. Yet the book does not neglect important political and religious leaders, entrepreneurs, and entertainers. It gives extensive coverage to African-American art, literature, and music.
Because African-American history starts in Africa, this book begins with an account of life on that continent to the sixteenth century when the forced migration of millions of Africans to the Americas began. The following two chap- ters present the struggle of black people to maintain their humanity during the slave trade and as slaves in North America during the long colonial period.
The coming of the American Revolution during the 1770s initiated a pattern of black struggle for racial justice in which periods of optimism alternated with times of repres- sion. Several chapters analyze the building of black com- munity institutions, the antislavery movement, the efforts of black people to make the Civil War a war for emancipa- tion, their struggle for equal rights as citizens during Recon- struction, and the strong opposition to these efforts. There is also substantial coverage of African-American military service, from the War for Independence through American wars of the nineteenth, twentieth, and into the twenty-first centuries.
During the late nineteenth century and much of the twentieth century, racial segregation and racially motivated violence that relegated African Americans to second-class citizenship provoked despair, but also inspired resistance and commitment to change. Chapters on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries cover the Great Migration from the cotton fields of the South to the North and West, Black Nation- alism, and the Harlem Renaissance. Chapters on the 1930s and 1940s—the beginning of a period of revolutionary change for African Americans—tell of the economic devastation and political turmoil caused by the Great Depression, the growing influence of black culture in America, the emergence of black internationalism, and the racial tensions caused by black par- ticipation in World War II.
The final chapters tell the story of African Americans in the closing decades of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first century. They portray the free- dom struggles and legislative successes of the civil rights movement at its peak during the 1950s and 1960s and the electoral political victories of the Black Power movement during the more conservative 1970s and 1980s. Finally, there are discussions of black life during the past 15 years,
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with focus on the election, reelection, and achievements of Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the United States. The last chapter focuses on the national and international impact of contemporary black culture pro- duced by the hip-hop generation as it wrestles with issues of social justice, economic opportunity, and human rights.
In all, The African-American Odyssey tells a compel- ling story of survival, struggle, and triumph over adversity. It will leave readers with an appreciation of the central place of black people and black culture in this country and a better understanding of both African-American and American history.
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Chronologies are included throughout the chapters to provide students with a snapshot of the temporal relation- ship among significant events.
Voices boxes provide students with first-person perspectives on key events in African-American history. Brief introductions and study questions help students analyze these primary source documents and relate them to the text.
Profile boxes provide biographical sketches that high- light the contributions and personalities of both prominent individuals and ordinary people, illuminating common experiences among African Americans at various times and places.
Connecting the Past essays examine important mile- stones of the African- American experience over time: evolution of the black church, the emergence of black auto- biography, black migration, desegregation of the military, and black culture.
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Chapter Revision Highlights
What’s New in the Seventh Edition Each chapter in the seventh edition of The African- American Odyssey has been revised and improved with updated scholarship.
Chapter 1 Several points in the “Birthplace of Humanity” and “West Africa” sections have been clarified. The bibliography has been updated.
Chapter 2 The “Slave Trade in Africa” and the “Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade” sections have been combined. “The Ending of the Atlantic Slave Trade” section has been revised and expanded. The bibliography has been updated.
Chapter 3 The “Race and the Origins of Black Slavery” and “Bacon’s Rebellion and American Slavery” sections have been revised to provide greater clarity. The Anthony Johnson profile has been revised and expanded. The bibliography has been updated.
Chapter 4 “The Impact of the Enlightenment” section has been revised to provide greater clarity. The Bibliography has been updated.
Chapter 5 The “First Black Schools,” “Slave Uprisings,” and “Missouri Compromise” sections have been revised to provide greater clarity. The bibliography has been updated.
Chapter 6 “The Character of Slavery and Slaves” section has been revised to provide greater clarity. The bibliography has been updated.
Chapter 7 The introductory section, which deals with demographics, has been expanded. The “Free African Americans in the Upper South” section has been revised to provide greater clarity. The bibliography has been updated.
Chapter 8 The “From Gabriel to Denmark vesey “and “Slavery and Politics” sections have been revised to provide greater clarity. The bibliography has been updated.
Chapter 9 The bibliography has been updated.
Chapter 10 The section on the African American response to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law has been revised. There is a new section on slaves who ran away and settled in communities and rural areas in Canada.
Chapter 11 A new section on the Louisiana Native Guards and their black and white officers has been added.
Chapter 12 There is additional information on class and status among African Americans after the Civil War. The section on the Black Codes has been revised and enhanced. There is a new “voices” that features Jourdan Anderson’s 1865 letter to his former master.
Chapter 13 The essay on voting rights and politics in the Connecting the Past section that follows the chapter has new a commentary on the importance of voting and President Barack Obama’s 2015 statements on the voting Rights Act.
Chapter 14 The section on convict leasing has been enhanced and new information on black women in the convict lease system has been included.
Chapter 15 There is a new section on the emergence of gospel music. There is also a new discussion on African American men and their role in the development and growth of horse racing.
Chapter 16 There is added information on W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk.
Chapter 17 The discussion of scientific racism has been revised and expanded. There is a new section on Amy Jacques Garvey, the wife of Marcus Garvey, and a new section on Harlem radical and intellectual Hubert Harrison.
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Chapter 18 The discussion of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was revised. New books have been added to the bibliography. The timelines have been revised.
Chapter 19 The discussion of black culture and cultural leaders was expanded and updated. A profile of Duke Ellington was added, as was an expanded discussion of Paul Robeson. The chapter includes revised and updated timelines, with the insertion of more individuals. An updated discussion of Jesse Owens is also included.
Chapter 20 A new discussion of President Truman’s Executive Order 9981 has been added. The discussion of Black women in the military during World War II was expanded. A longer discussion of the post–World War II violence that returning black servicemen encountered, especially in the South, has been added.
Part VI The chapter includes a significantly updated timeline that covers The Black Revolution to the present.
Chapter 21 A new profile of Oklahoma activist Clara Luper has been added along with more discussion of the civil rights movement in Oklahoma. A discussion of twenty-first century efforts to reduce black voting has been added. The discussion of the Little Rock Nine has been expanded to include President Eisenhower’s support for the parents and children, as well as the subsequent careers of the graduates, including Ernest Green.
Chapter 22 Updated discussion of the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X and Black Nationalism and the Black Panther Party is included. Additional coverage of Lorraine Hansberry and an updated bibliography are also included in this chapter.
Chapter 23 The order and presentation of Chapters 23 and 24 have been switched in this edition to keep the chronological flow of information about African-American history. This chapter includes an added discussion of President Obama’s second- term election and several of the most consequential recent accomplishments of his presidency, including normalization of relations with Cuba and the Iran nuclear agreement on the international front. Details about the national epidemic of mass murders combined with the police shootings that inspired the formation of the Black Lives Matter Movement during the closing years of the Obama presidency have been provided. Additional analysis of recent USSC decision on education discrimination has been included. A new table on African American Participants in U.S. Presidential Inaugurations has been included.
Chapter 24 This chapter includes updated statistical charts relating to mass incarceration, black family composition, changes in the number of children living with single mothers, and health care statistics. Expanded discussion of cultural changes focuses on the lives and contribution of cultural activists from the civil rights movement era to the contemporary hip-hop era. Discussion of past and present women and men in the STEM professions has also been expanded. In addition, the chapter provides updated tables on HIv/AIDS health care crisis. A map on black unemployment rate is also now included.
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The following documents are available in the Revel version of The African-American Odyssey, Seventh Edition.
Chapter 1: Africa, ca. 6000 bce–ca. 1600 ce • Al-Umari Describes Mansa Musa of Mali (c. 1330) • An Egyptian Hymn to the Nile (ca. 1350–1100 bce) • Leo Africanus Describes Timbuktu (c. 1500)
Chapter 2: Middle Passage, ca. 1450–1809 • Willem Bosman, from A New and Accurate Description
of the Coast of Guinea Divided into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory Coasts (1705)
• Alexander Falconbridge, A Slave Ship Surgeon Writes About the Slave Trade (1788)
• Olaudah Equiano, The Middle Passage, 1788 • venture Smith, A Slave Tells of His Capture in Africa
in 1798 • Bryan Edwards Describes the “Maroon Negroes
of the Island of Jamaica” (1807) • A Defense of the Slave Trade
Chapter 3: Black People in Colonial North America, 1526–1763 • The Colony of virginia Defines Slavery (1661–1705) • Maryland Addresses the Status of Slaves, 1664 • William Berkeley, Declaration against the Proceed-
ings of Nathaniel Bacon, 1676 • Runaway Notices From the South Carolina Gazette
(1732 and 1737) • James Oglethorpe, The Stono Rebellion, 1739 • venture Smith, from A Narrative of the Life
and Adventures of Venture (1798) • An Architect Describes African American Music
and Instruments in 1818
Chapter 4: Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle for Independence, 1763–1783 • John Woolman, An Early Abolitionist Speaks Out
Against Slavery, 1757 • Phillis Wheatley Publishes Her Poems, 1773 • Slaves Petition the Governor of Massachusetts
to End Slavery (1774) • Proclamation of Lord Dunmore (1775) • Jefferson’s “Original Rough Draft” of the Declara-
tion of Independence (1776) • Prince Hall, A Free African-American Petitions the
Government for Emancipation of All Slaves, 1777 • Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1791)
Chapter 5: African Americans in the New Nation, 1783–1820 • John Wesley, “Thoughts Upon Slavery” (1774) • Prince Hall, A Free African-American Petitions the
Government for Emancipation of All Slaves, 1777
• Two Slaves Call on Connecticut to End Slavery (1779) • Preamble of the Free African Society (1787) • Congress Prohibits the Importation of Slaves (1807) • Absalom Jones Delivers a Sermon on the Occasion
of the Abolition of the International Slave Trade, 1808 • Missouri Enabling Act (March 1820) • Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Reacts
to the “Missouri Question,” 1820 • Richard Allen, “Address to the Free People
of Colour of these United States” (1830)
Chapter 6: Life in the Cotton Kingdom, 1793–1861 • Thomas R. Dew’s Defense of Slavery, 1832 • An Englishman Describes a Washington, D.C.,
Slave Pen (1835) • Farm Journal Reports on the Care and Feeding
of Slaves, (1836) • Charles C. Jones, The Religious Instruction
of the Negroes in the United States (1842) • Henry Watson, A Slave Tells of His Sale at Auction, 1848 • Reverend A. T. Holmes, The Duties of Christian
Masters (1851) • A Catechism for Slaves (1854) • Frederick Law Olmsted, from A Journey
in the Seaboard States (1856)
Chapter 7: Free Black People in Antebellum America, 1820–1861 • Sarah Mapps Douglass Describes Her Encounter
with Northern Racism (1837) • Journal of Charlotte Forten, Free Woman of Color
(Selections from 1854) • John Gloucester, The Founder of the First African
Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia (1857) • Harriet Wilson, From Our Nig; or, Sketches
from the Life of a Free Black (1859)
Chapter 8: Opposition to Slavery, 1730–1833 • Ben Woolfolk, A Virginia Slave Explains Gabriel’s
Conspiracy (1800) • An Account of the Late Intended Insurrection
Among a Portion of the Blacks of this City (1822) • David Walker, Walker’s Appeal (1829) • Nat Turner, The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831 • William Lloyd Garrison Demands an Immediate
End to Slavery, 1831 • The American Anti-Slavery Society Declares
Its Sentiments, 1833 • Runaway Slave Advertisements, 1838–1839
Chapter 9: Let Your Motto Be Resistance, 1833–1850 • Levi Coffin’s Underground Railroad Station, 1826–1827 • An Abolitionist Lecturer’s Instructions (1834)
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• Elizabeth Margaret Chandler Calls on Women to Become Abolitionists (1836)
• Garnet’s “Call to Rebellion” (1843) • Frederick Douglass, excerpt from Narrative of the Life,
(1845) • Two Escaped Slaves Tell Their Stories (1855)
Chapter 10: “And Black People Were at the Heart of It”: The United States Disunites Over Slavery, 1846–1861 • National Convention of Colored People, Report
on Abolition (1847) • Frederick Douglass: What of the Night? (1848);
A Letter to American Slaves (1850); Letter to James Redpath (1860)
• Clay and Calhoun, The Compromise of 1850 • The Fugitive Slave Act, 1850 • Sojourner Truth, Address to the Woman’s Rights
Convention, Akron, Ohio (1851) • Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852 • A Southern Scholar Critiques Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852 • Stephen Pembroke, Speech by a Slave (1854) • Anthony Burns Responds to His Excommunication
from the Baptist Church (1855) • Benjamin Drew, Narratives of Escaped Slaves (1855) • Massachusetts Defies the Fugitive Slave Act, 1855 • Dred Scott, A Slave Sues for Freedom, 1857 • Abraham Lincoln, Debate at Galesburg, Illinois,
1858 • An Abolitionist Is Given the Death Sentence (1859) • Abraham Lincoln Argues that the United States
Cannot Be a “House Divided,” 1859 • William Lloyd Garrison, On John Brown’s Raid, 1859
Chapter 11: Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War, 1861–1865 • Abraham Lincoln Defines His Position on Slavery
and the War, 1862 • A Confederate Soldier Denounces Exempting
Slaveholders from Military Service (1862) • Abraham Lincoln, The Emancipation Proclamation,
1863 • Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 1863 • An African American Soldier Writes to President
Lincoln, 1863 • Clement vallandigham, On the War and Its Conduct
(January 14, 1863) • Lewis Douglass Describes the Battle of Fort Wagner,
1863 • Testimony of victims of the New York City Draft
Riots, 1863 • A Free Black volunteer Describes His Feelings About
Fighting for the Union, 1864 • A Civil War Nurse Writes of Conditions of Freed
Slaves (1864) • Soldier (20th U.S. Colored Infantry), Letter to the
Abraham Lincoln (1864)
• Elizabeth Keckley Describes Life in the White House During the Civil War (1866)
Chapter 12: The Meaning of Freedom: The Promise of Reconstruction, 1865–1868 • Charlotte Forten Describes Life on the Sea Islands,
1864 • Address From the Colored Citizens of Norfolk,
virginia, to the People of the United States (1865) • Calvin Holly, Mississippi Black Soldier to the
Freedmen’s Bureau Commissioner (1865) • Carl Schurz Reports on Conditions in the Postwar
South, 1865 • Freed Slaves March in Charleston, South Carolina
(1865) • Jourdon Anderson to His Former Master, 1865 • State of Mississippi, Black Code, 1865 • Thaddeus Stevens, Reconstruction Speech (December
18, 1865) • The Colored People of South Carolina Protest
the “Black Codes,” 1865 • The Freedmen’s Bureau Bill (1865) • Marcus S. Hopkins, Freedmen’s Bureau Agent
at Brentsville, Virginia, to the Freedmen’s Bureau Superintendent of the 10th District of Virginia (1866)
• President Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act of 1866, 1866
Chapter 13: The Meaning of Freedom: The Failure of Reconstruction, 1868–1877 • An Ex-Slave Describes a Ku Klux Klan Ride,
Late 1860s • The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth
Amendments to the Constitution, 1865–1870 • Federal Officials Investigate the Memphis Riot,
1866 • Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan,
1868 • Albion W. Tourgee, Letter on Ku Klux Klan
Activities, 1870 • A Southern Poet Celebrates the Confederacy’s “Lost
Cause” (1870s) • An African American Senator Decries Democratic
Political violence, 1876 • James W. Lee, Letter to Mississippi Governor Adelbert
Ames (Feb. 7, 1876)
Chapter 14: White Supremacy Triumphant: African Americans in the Late Nineteenth Century, 1877–1895 • James T. Rapier, Testimony before U.S. Senate Regard-
ing the Agricultural Labor Force in the South (1880) • A Sharecrop Contract, 1882 • Ida B. Wells-Barnett, False Accusations, from The Red
Record, 1895 • Plessy v. Ferguson Legalizes Segregation, 1896 • Mark Twain, The United States of Lyncherdom (1901)
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Chapter 15: African Americans Challenge White Supremacy, 1877–1918 • Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Exposition Address,
1895 • Paul Laurence Dunbar, “The Colored Soldiers”
(1896) • Booker T. Washington, “Industrial Education
for the Negro” (1903) • W. E. B. Du Bois, The Talented Tenth, 1903
Chapter 16: Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African Americans in the Early Twentieth Century, 1895–1925 • Anna Julia Cooper Describes the Status of Women
in America (1892) • W.E.B. Du Bois Challenges Booker T. Washington, 1903 • W. E. B. Du Bois, from “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington
and Others” (1903) • The Niagara Movement Articulates Its Principles, 1906 • Platform of the National Negro Committee (1909) • Letters from the Great Migration, 1917 • French Military Mission, Statement Concerning Black
American Troops (1918) • A. Philip Randolph Embraces Socialism (1919) • The Chicago Defender Describes a Race Riot (1919) • Reverend F. J. Grimke, Address to African-American
Soldiers Returning from War (1919) • “The Eruption of Tulsa”: An NAACP Official
Investigates the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
Chapter 17: African Americans and the 1920s, 1918–1929 • Marcus Garvey Calls for Black Separatism, (1921) • Marcus Garvey, “If You Believe the Negro Has
a Soul,” Marcus Garvey (1921) • The “Creed of Klanswomen,” 1924 • Alain Locke Discusses the Emergence of the “New
Negro” (1925) • Hiram Evans, “Klan’s Fight for Americanism,” 1926
Chapter 18: Black Protest, Great Depression, and the New Deals, 1929–1940 • Luther C. Wandall Describes His Experience
in the Civilian Conservation Corps (1935) • National Labor Relations Act (1935) • Eyewitness Accounts of the Ku Klux Klan (1936) • Scott’s Run, West virginia. Johnson Family—Father
Unemployed (1937) • Mrs. Henry Weddington, Letter to President
Roosevelt, 1938
Chapter 19: Meanings of Freedom: Black Culture and Society, 1930–1950 • “BUT I AM NOT tragically colored” Zora Neale
Hurston’s Contrarian Self-Image at the Height of the Harlem Renaissance (1928)
• Ethel Waters Talks About Blacks in the Movies (1950)
• “Are you now a member of the Communist Party?” The HUAC Testimony of Paul Robeson (1956)
• Ella Fitzgerald, Complaint Against Pan American World Airlines (1957)
Chapter 20: The World War II Era and the Seeds of a Revolution, 1940–1950 • Thurgood Marshall, “The Legal Attack to Secure
Civil Rights” (1942) • The First Lady and the Airman: Correspondence
of Cecil Peterson and Eleanor Roosevelt (1942–1943) • President Truman Integrates the Armed Forces
(1948) • “The Dictates of Self-Respect” The Committee
against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training to President Truman (1948)
Chapter 21: The Long Freedom Movement, 1950–1970 • McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents Paves the Way
for Brown (1950) • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 1954 • Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, Montgomery Bus Boycott,
1955 • Southern Manifesto on Integration (1956) • President Eisenhower Uses the National Guard
to Desegregate Central High School, 1957 • Letter from Jackie Robinson to President Eisenhower
(1958) • Julian Bond, Sit-ins and the Origins of SNCC (1960) • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Statement of Purpose, 1960 • James Meredith, Letter to the Justice Department
(1961) • Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham
Jail,” 1963 • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 • voting Literacy Test (1965)
Chapter 22: Black Nationalism, Black Power, and Black Arts, 1965–1980 • From the FBI files of Malcolm X (1951–1953) • Lyndon B. Johnson, The War on Poverty, 1964 • Ione Malloy Describes the Conflict Over Busing
in Boston (1965) • The Supreme Court Rules on Busing, Swann
v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (1971) • “Our Nation Is Moving Toward Two Societies, One
Black, One White-Separate and Unequal”
Chapter 23: Black Politics and President Barack Obama, 1980–2016 • Richard viguerie, Why the New Right is Winning
(1981) • Nelson Mandela, Release from Prison (1990) • Barack H. Obama, A More Perfect Union (2008)
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• Darlene Clark Hine, Mystic Chords of Memory (2008) • Barack H. Obama, Inaugural Address (2009)
Chapter 24: African Americans End the Twentieth Century and Enter into the Twenty-First Century, 1980–2016 • Public Housing in Chicago: Martha Madison Writes
to Judge John Powers Crowley (1981) • Michael Jackson: Beyond the Pale (1992)
• American Forces Information Service Black History Month Poster (2000)
• The Path Forward: Revisiting The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (2013)
• Does Rachel Dolezal have “a right to be black”? (2015)
• President Barack Obama’s Remarks at the Dedication of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (2016)
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In preparing The African-American Odyssey, we have benefited from the work of many scholars and the help of colleagues, librarians, friends, and family.
Special thanks are due to the following scholars for their substantial contributions to the development of this textbook: Hilary Mac Austin, Chicago, Illinois; Pero Dagbo- vie, Michigan State University; Brian W. Dippie, University of Victoria; Thomas Doughton, Holy Cross College; Jack Dodds, formerly of Harper College; W. Marvin Dulaney, University of Texas at Arlington ; Sherry DuPree, Rosewood Heritage Foun- dation; Peter Banner-Haley, Colgate University; Robert L. Harris, Jr., formerly of Cornell University; Wanda Hendricks, University of South Carolina; Rickey Hill, Jackson State Uni- versity; William B. Hixson, formerly Michigan State Univer- sity; Barbara Williams Jenkins, formerly of South Carolina State University; Earnestine Jenkins, University of Memphis; Hannibal Johnson, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Wilma King, Univer- sity of Missouri, Columbia; Karen Kossie- Chernyshev, Texas Southern University; Frank C. Martin, South Carolina State University; Jacqueline McLeod, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Freddie Parker, North Carolina Central Univer- sity; Christopher R. Reed, Roosevelt University; Linda Reed, University of Houston; Mark Stegmaier, Cameron University; Marshanda Smith, Northwestern University; Robert Stewart, Trinity School, New York; Larry Watson, South Carolina State University; ; Barbara Woods, formerly of South Carolina State University; Andrew Workman, Mills College; Deborah Wright, Avery Research Center, College of Charleston.
We are grateful to the reviewers through seven editions who devoted valuable time to reading and commenting on The African-American Odyssey. Their insightful suggestions greatly improved the quality of the text: Leslie Alexander, The Ohio State University; Carol Anderson, University of Missouri, Columbia; Abel A. Bartley, Clemson University; Jennifer L. Baszile, Yale University; James M. Beeby, West Virginia Wes- leyan College; Richard A. Buckelew, Bethune- Cookman Col- lege; Claude A. Clegg, Indiana University; Gregory Conerly, Cleveland State University; Delia Cook, University of Missouri at Kansas City; Caroline Cox, University of the Pacific; Mary Ellen Curtin, Southwest Texas State University; Henry vance Davis, Ramapo College of NJ; Roy F. Finkenbine, Wayne State University; Dr. Jessie Gaston, California State University, Sacramento; Abiodun Goke-Pariola, Georgia Southern Uni- versity; Robert Gregg, Richard Stockton College of NJ; Keith Griffler, University of Cincinnati; John H. Haley, University of North Carolina at Wilmington; Robert v. Hanes, Western
Kentucky University; Julia Robinson Harmon, Western Michi- gan University; Ebeneazer Hunter, De Anza College; Eric R. Jackson, Northern Kentucky University; Wali Rashash Kharif, Tennessee Technological University; John W. King, Temple Uni- versity; Joseph Kinner, Gallaudet University; Lester C. Lamon, Indiana University, South Bend; Eric Love, University of Colorado- Boulder; John F. Marszalek, Mississippi State Univer- sity; Kenneth Mason, Santa Monica College; Andrew T. Miller, Union College; Diane Batts Morrow, University of Georgia; Ruddy Pearson, American College; Walter Rucker, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Josh Sides, California State University, Northridge; Manisha Sinha, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; John David Smith, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Marshall Stevenson, Ohio State University; Betty Joe Wallace, Austin Peay State University; Matthew C. Whitaker, Arizona State University; Harry Williams, Carleton College; vernon J. Williams, Jr., Purdue University; Leslie Wilson, Montclair State University; Andrew Workman, Mills College; Marilyn L. Yancy, Virginia Union University.
We wish to thank the following reviewers for their insight- ful comments in preparation for this seventh edition: Sele Adeyemi, J Sargeant Reynolds Community College; Daniel Anderson, Cincinnati State Technical and Community College; Latangela Crossfield, Clark Atlanta University; Linda Denkins, Houston Community College District– Northeast; Jennifer Harbour, University of Nebraska–Omaha; Misti Harper, University of Arkansas; Maurice Hobson, Univer- sity of Mississippi; Lacey Hunter, Rutgers University; Ryan McMillen, Santa Monica College; Zacharia Nchinda, Univer- sity of Wisconsin–Milwaukee; Charmayne Patterson, Clark Atlanta University; Matthew Schaffer, Florence Darlington Technical College; and Erica Woods-Warrior, Hampton University.
Leslie Alexander, The Ohio State University; Lila Ammons, Howard University; Beverly Bunch-Lyons, Virginia Tech- nical College; Latangela Crossfield, Clark Atlanta Univer- sity; Linda Denkins, Houston Community College; Lillie Edwards, Drew University; Jim Harper, North Carolina Cen- tral University; Dr. Maurice Hobson, University of Missis- sippi; Alyce Miller, John Tyler Community College; Zacharia Nchinda, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Melinda Pash, Fayetteville Technical Community College; Charmayne Patterson, Clark Atlanta University; Matthew Schaffer, Florence Darlington Technical College; Denise Scifres, City Colleges of Chicago, Center for Distance Learning; Linda Tomlinson, Fayetteville State University; Angela Winand,
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University of Illinois, Springfield; Erica Woods-Warrior, Hampton University.
Many librarians provided valuable help tracking down impor- tant material. They include Avery Daniels, Ruth Hodges, Doris Johnson, the late Barbara Keitt, Cathi Cooper Mack, Mary L. Smalls, Ashley Till, and Adrienne Webber, all of Miller F. Whittaker Library, South Carolina State University; James Brooks and Jo Cottingham of the interlibrary loan depart- ment, Cooper Library, University of South Carolina; and Allan Stokes of the South Carolina Library at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Marshanda Smith and Kathleen Thompson pro- vided important documents and other source material.
Seleta Simpson Byrd of South Carolina State University; Marshanda Smith of Northwestern University provided valuable research assistance in the preparation of several content and statistical charts and timelines.
Each of us also enjoyed the support of family members, par- ticularly Barbara A. Clark, Robbie D. Clark, Emily Harrold, Judy Harrold, Carol A. Hine, and Thomas D. Hine.
Finally, we gratefully acknowledge the essential help of the superb editorial and production team at Prentice Hall/ Pearson Education: Charlyce Jones Owen, Publisher, whose vision got this project started and whose unwav- ering support saw it through to completion; Maureen Diana, Editorial Assistant; Rochelle Diogenes, Editor- in-Chief of Development; Maria Lange, Creative Design Director; Ann Marie McCarthy, Senior Managing Editor; and Emsal Hasan, Project Manager, who saw it efficiently through production; Marianne Gloriande, Manufacturing Buyer; Wendy Albert, Senior Marketing Manager; Beverly Fong, Program Manager; Tanisha Jackson, Program Editor at Ohlinger Publishing Services, for editorial and bibliographical suggestions and material contributions; and Ohlinger Publishing Services, who worked on this edition’s development.
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Darlene Clark Hine Darlene Clark Hine is Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and Professor of History at Northwestern University. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as past president of the Organization of American Historians and of the Southern Historical Association. In 2014 President Barack Obama awarded Hine the National Humanities Medal (2013) for her work in African American and in Black Women’s History. In 2015, the National Women’s History Project honored Hine for her contributions to women’s history. Hine received her BA at Roosevelt University in Chicago, and her MA and PhD from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. Hine has taught at South Carolina State University and at Purdue University. She was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University. She is the author and/or coeditor of 20 books, most recently The Black Chicago Renaissance (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012), Black Europe and the African Diaspora (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010), coedited with Trica Danielle Keaton and Stephen Small; Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005), coedited with Barry Gaspar; and The Harvard Guide to African- American History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), coedited with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Leon Litwack. She coedited a two-volume set with Earnestine Jenkins, A Question of Manhood: A Reader in U.S. Black Men’s History and Masculinity (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999, 2001); and with Jacqueline McLeod, Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000). With Kathleen Thompson she wrote A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America (New York: Broadway Books, 1998), and edited with Barry Gaspar More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996). She won the Dartmouth Medal of the
American Library Association for the reference volumes coedited with Elsa Barkley Brown and Rosalyn Terborg- Penn, Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (New York: Carlson Publishing, 1993). She is the author of Black Women in White: Racial Conf lict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890–1950 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989). She continues to work on the forthcoming book project The Black Professional Class: Physicians, Nurses, Lawyers, and the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement, 1890–1955.
William C. Hine Now retired, William C. Hine taught history for many years at South Carolina State University.
Stanley Harrold Stanley Harrold is Professor of History at South Carolina State University and coeditor of Southern Dissent, a book series published by the University Press of Florida. Harrold has a BA from Allegheny College and an MA and PhD from Kent State University. He has received four National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, most recently in 2013–14. His books include Gamaliel Bailey and Antislavery Union (Kent State University Press, 1986), The Abolitionists and the South (University Press of Kentucky, 1995), Anti- slavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America, coedited with John R. McKivigan (University of Tennessee Press, 1999), American Abolitionists (Taylor & Francis, 2001), Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828–1865 (Louisiana State University Press, 2003), The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves (University Press of Kentucky, 2004), Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Reader (Wiley, 2007), and Border War: Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). In 2011, Border War won the Southern Historical Association’s 2011 James A. Rawley Award and received an honorable mention for the Lincoln Prize. Harrold has recently published articles in North & South, Organization of American Historian’s Magazine of History, and Ohio Valley History.
About the Authors
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The African-American Odyssey
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Part I
Becoming African American
to 1500 1500–1700
Religion 300s ce Axum adopts Christianity 750s Islam begins to take root in West
Africa 1300s–1500s Timbuktu flourishes as a center
of Islamic learning 1324 Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage to
Mecca c. 1500 Portuguese convert Kongo kings
to Christianity
CultuRe 1600s African versions of English and French—Gullah, Geechee, and Creole—begin to develop
1600s–1700s African-American folk culture appears among the slaves
PolitiCs and goveRnment
c. 3150–30 bce Independence of Ancient Egypt 1st century ce Fall of Kush 8th century ce Decline of Axumite Empire
in Ethiopia c. 750–1076 Empire of Ghana 1230–1468 Empire of Mali 1400s–1700s Expansion of Benin 1468–1571 Empire of Songhai
1500s Rise of Akan states 1607 Jamestown founded 1696 South Carolina Slave Code
enacted
soCiety and eConomy
10th century Islamic slave trade across the Sahara and Central Africa begins
1472 First Portuguese slave traders in Benin
1481 First “slave factory” in Elmira on the Guinea coast
1502 First mention of African slaves in the Americas
1518 Spanish Asiento begins c. 1520 Sugar plantations begin
in Brazil 1619 First African slaves arrive
in Jamestown 1620s Chesapeake tobacco plantations
increase the demand for slaves 1624 First black child reported born
in British North America 1660s Chattel slavery emerges in the
southern colonies
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1700–1800 1800–1820 Noteworthy Individuals
c. 1738 First Great Awakening: George Whitefield preaches to African Americans
1780 Lemuel Haynes becomes first ordained black Congregationalist minister
1794 Mother Bethel Church founded in Philadelphia St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church established under Absalom Jones
1808 Abyssinian Baptist Church organized in New York City
1811 African Presbyterian Church established in Philadelphia under Samuel E. Cornish
1816 African Methodist Episcopal Church established
King Piankhy of Kush (r. c. 750 bce)
sundiata of mali (c. 1235 ce)
emperor mansa musa of mali (r. 1312–1337)
King sunni ali of songhai (r. 1464–1492)
King askia muhammed toure of songhai (r. 1493–1528)
King nzinga mbemba (afonso i) of Kongo (r. 1506–1543) ayuba suleiman diallo of Bondu (c. 1701–1773)
Jupiter Hammon (1711–c. 1806)
Crispus attucks (1723–1770)
Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806) Prince Hall (1735–1807)
elizabeth Freeman (1744–1811)
absalom Jones (1746–1818)
olaudah equiano (c. 1745–1797) James Forten (1746–1818) Peter salem (1750–1816)
Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784) Richard allen
(1760–1831) Paul Cuffe (1759–1817)
daniel Coker (1780–1846)
gabriel (d. 1800)
Charles deslondes (d. 1811)
1740s Lucy Terry Prince publishes poetry 1760 Jupiter Hammon publishes a book of poetry 1773 Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects 1775 Prince Hall founds first African-American
Masonic Lodge 1780 First African-American mutual aid society
founded in Newport, Rhode Island 1787 Free African Society founded in Philadelphia 1791–1795 Benjamin Banneker’s Almanac published 1793 Philadelphia’s Female Benevolent Society
of St. Thomas founded
1818 Mother Bethel Church establishes the Augustine School
1773 Massachusetts African Americans petition the legislature for freedom
1775 Black militiamen fight at Lexington and Concord 1776 Declaration of Independence 1777 Vermont prohibits slavery 1782 Virginia allows manumission 1783 Massachusetts allows male black taxpayers
to vote 1787 Congress bans slavery in the Northwest Territory 1789 U.S. Constitution includes the Three-Fifths clause 1793 Congress passes First Fugitive Slave Act
1807 Britain abolishes the Atlantic slave trade
1808 U.S. abolishes the Atlantic slave trade
1820 Missouri Compro- mise First settlement of Liberia by African Americans
1712 New York City slave rebellion 1739 Stono slave revolt in South Carolina 1776–1783 100,000 slaves flee southern plantations 1781–1783 20,000 black Loyalists depart with British troops 1793 Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
1800 Gabriel’s rebellion in Charleston
1811 Deslondes’s rebellion in Louisiana
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West Africans were making iron tools long before Europeans arrived in Africa.
Chapter 1
Africa ca. 6000 bce–ca. 1600 ce
After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
1.1 Recognize the geographical characteristics of Africa.
1.2 Be aware of current theories about where and how humans originated.
1.3 Understand why ancient African civilizations are important.
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1.4 Appreciate West Africa’s significance in regard to African- American history.
1.5 Analyze what Kongo and Angola had in common with West Africa.
1.6 Understand how legacies of West African society and culture influenced the way African Americans lived.
These [West African] nations think themselves the foremost men in the world, and nothing will persuade them to the contrary. They imagine that Africa is not only the greatest part of the world but also the happiest and
most agreeable.
—Father Cavazzi, 1687
The ancestral homeland of most black Americans is West Africa. Other parts of Africa— Angola and East Africa—were caught up in the great Atlantic slave trade that carried Africans to the New World from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. But West Africa was the center of the trade in human beings. Knowing the history of West Africa therefore is important for understanding the people who became the first African Americans.
That history, however, is best understood within the larger context of the history and geography of the African continent. This chapter begins, therefore, with a survey of the larger context. It emphasizes aspects of a broader African experience that shaped life in West Africa before the arrival of Europeans in that region. It then explores West Africa’s unique heritage and the facets of its culture that have influenced the lives of African Americans from the Diaspora—the original forced dispersal of Africans from their homeland—to the present.
1.1 A Huge and Diverse Land Recognize the geographical characteristics of Africa.
Africa, the second largest continent in the world (only Asia is larger), is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea to the east. A narrow strip of land in Africa’s northeast corner connects it to the Arabian Peninsula and beyond that to Asia and Europe.
From north to south, Africa is divided into a succession of climatic zones (see Map 1-1). Except for a fertile strip along the Mediterranean coast and the agricultur- ally rich Nile River valley, most of the northern third of the continent consists of the Sahara Desert. For thousands of years, the Sahara limited contact between the rest of Africa—known as sub-Saharan Africa—and the Mediterranean coast, Europe, and Asia. South of the Sahara is a semidesert region known as the Sahel, and south of the Sahel is a huge grassland, or savanna, stretching from Ethiopia west to the Atlantic Ocean. Arab adventurers named this savanna Bilad es Sudan, meaning “land of the black people,” and the term Sudan designates this entire region rather than simply the modern East African nations of Sudan and South Sudan. Much of the habitable part of West Africa falls within the savanna. The rest lies within the northern part of a rain forest that extends east from the Atlantic coast over most of the central part of the continent. Another region of savanna borders the rain forest to the south, fol- lowed by another desert—the Kalahari—and another coastal strip at the continent’s southern extremity.
savanna A flat, nearly treeless grassland typical of large portions of West Africa.
rain forest A dense growth of tall trees char- acteristic of hot, wet regions.
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1.2 The Birthplace of Humanity Be aware of current theories about where and how humans originated.
Paleoanthropologists—scientists who study the evolution and prehistory of humans— have concluded that the origins of humanity lie in the savanna regions of Africa. All people today, in other words, are very likely descendants of beings who lived in Africa millions of years ago.
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Map 1-1 Africa: Climatic Regions and Early Sites Africa is a large continent with several climatic zones. It is also the home of several early civilizations.
What impact did the variety of climatic zones have on the development of civilization in Africa?
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Fossil and genetic evidence suggests that both humans and the forest-dwelling great apes (gorillas and chimpanzees) descended from a common ancestor who lived in Africa about 5 to 10 million years ago. The African climate had grown, as forests gave way to savannas dotted with isolated patches of trees.
The earliest known hominids (the term designates the biological family to which humans belong) were the Ardipithecines, who emerged about 4.5 million years ago. These creatures walked upright but otherwise retained primitive characteristics and did not make stone tools. But by 3.4 million years ago, their descendants, known as Austra- lopithecus, used primitive stone tools to butcher meat. By 2.4 million years ago, Homo habilis, the earliest creature designated as within the homo (human) lineage, had devel- oped a larger brain than Ardipithecus or Australopithecus. Homo habilis (habilis means “tool using”) used fire and built shelters with stone foundations. Like people in hunting-and- gathering societies today, members of the Homo habilis species probably lived in small bands in which women foraged for plant food and men hunted and scavenged for meat.
Recent discoveries suggest Homo habilis may have spread from Africa to the Cau- casus region of southeastern Europe. A more advanced human, Homo erectus, spread even farther from Africa, reaching eastern Asia and Indonesia. Homo erectus, who emerged in Africa about 1.6 million years ago, may have been the first human to use rafts to cross large bodies of water and may have had a limited ability to speak.
Paleoanthropologists agree that modern humans, Homo sapiens, evolved from Homo erectus, but they disagree on how. According to a multiregional model, modern humans evolved throughout Africa, Asia, and Europe from ancestral regional populations of Homo erectus and archaic Homo sapiens. According to the currently stronger out-of-Africa model, modern humans emerged in Africa some 200,000 years ago and began migrating to the rest of the world about 100,000 years ago, eventually replacing all other existing hominid populations. Both of these models are consistent with recent genetic evidence, and both indicate that all living peoples are closely related. The “Mitochondrial Eve” hypothesis, which supports the out-of-Africa model, suggests that all modern humans are descended from a single African woman who lived in East Africa between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago. The multiregional model maintains that a continuous exchange of genetic material allowed archaic human populations in Africa, Asia, and Europe to evolve simultaneously into modern humans.
1.3 Ancient Civilizations and Old Arguments
Understand why ancient African civilizations are important.
The earliest civilization in Africa and one of the two earliest civilizations in world history is that of ancient Egypt (see Map 1-1), which emerged in the Nile River valley in the fourth millennium bce. Mesopotamian civilization, the other of the two, emerged in the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southwest Asia. In both regions, civilization appeared at the end of a long process in which hunting and gathering gave way to agriculture. The set- tled village life that resulted from this transformation permitted society to become increas- ingly hierarchical and specialized. Similar processes gave rise to civilization in other parts of the world. Among them were the Indus valley in India around 2300 bce, northeast China around 1500 bce, and Mexico and Andean South America during the first millennium bce.
The race of the ancient Egyptians and the nature and extent of their influence on later Western civilizations have long been a source of controversy. That controversy reflects more about the racial politics of recent history than it reveals about the Egyptians them- selves, who did not regard themselves in ways related to modern racial terminology. It is not clear whether the Egyptians were an offshoot of their Mesopotamian contemporaries, whether they were part of a group of peoples whose origins were in both Africa and southwest Asia, or whether black Africans were ancestors of both the Egyptians and
hominids The biological family to which humans belong.
hunting-and-gathering societies Small societies dependent on hunting animals and collecting wild plants rather than on agriculture.
hierarchical Refers to a social system based on class rank.
This drawing is based on a partial, fossilized skeleton discovered at Afar, Ethiopia, in 1994. The anthropologists who found the remains concluded in 2009 that the bones are those of a female Ardipithecus ramidus (nick- named “Ardi”) who lived 4.5 million years ago. Ardi fortifies existing evidence that human origins lay in Africa.
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Mesopotamians. What is clear is that the ancient Egyptians exhibited a mixture of racial features and spoke a language related to the languages spoken by others in the fertile regions of North Africa and southwest Asia.
The argument over the Egyptians’ race began in the nineteenth century when African Americans and white reformers sought to refute claims by racist pseudoscien- tists that people of African descent were inherently inferior to people of European descent. Unaware of the achieve- ments of West African civilization, those who believed in human equality used evidence that the Egyptians were black to counter assertions that African Americans were incapable of civilization.
During the last two decades of the twentieth century, a more scholarly debate occurred between Afrocentricists and traditionalists. Afrocentricists regarded ancient Egypt as an essentially black civilization closely linked to other indigenous African civilizations to its south. They main- tained not only that the Egyptians influenced later African civilizations but also that they had a decisive impact on the Mediterranean Sea region, including ancient Greece and Rome. Therefore, in regard to philosophy and sci- ence, black Egyptians originated Western civilization. In response, traditionalists claimed that modern racial categories have no relevance to the world of the ancient Egyptians. The ancient Greeks, they argued, developed the empirical method of inquiry and notions of individual freedom that characterize Western civilization. Not under debate, however, was Egypt’s contribution to the spread of civilization throughout the Mediterranean region. No one doubts that in religion, commerce, and art, Egypt strongly influenced Greece and subsequent Western civilizations.
1.3.1 Egyptian Civilization Egypt was, as the Greek historian Herodotus observed 2,500 years ago, the “gift of the Nile.” This great river’s gentle annual flooding regularly irrigated its banks, leav- ing behind deposits of fertile soil. This allowed Egyptians to cultivate wheat and barley and herd goats, sheep, pigs, and cattle in an otherwise desolate region. The Nile also provided the Egyptians with a transportation and commu- nications artery, while their desert surroundings protected them from foreign invasion.
Egypt became a unified kingdom around 3150 bce. Between 1550 and 1100 bce, it expanded beyond the Nile valley, creating an empire over the coastal regions of south- west Asia as well as over Libya and Nubia in Africa. It was during this period that Egypt’s kings began using the title pharaoh, which means “great house.” After 1100 bce, Egypt fell prey to a series of outside invaders. With the invasion of Alexander the Great’s Macedonian army in 331 bce, Egypt’s ancient culture began a long decline under the pressure of Greek ideas and institutions (see Map 1-2). Finally the Roman Empire conquered Egypt in 30 bce.