Jon Lewis

Leon F. Litwack

Hilton Als

Lynching Photography in America

Without Sanctuary

Provides a study of the transition from slavery to freedom that was experienced by four million Black men and women

The Aftermath of Slavery

Been in the Storm So Long

In the sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Been in the Storm So Long, the author traces the often excruciating lives of newly freed slaves in the South after the Civil War, when lynch mobs roamed the land. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow

Trouble in Mind

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book AwardBased on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this " rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, "The New York Times Book Review") aims to show how, during the Civil War and after Emancipation, blacks and whites interacted in ways that dramatized not only their mutual dependency, but the ambiguities and tensions that had always been latent in " the peculiar institution." "Contents"1. " The Faithful Slave" 2. Black Liberators3. Kingdom Comin'4. Slaves No More5. How Free is Free?6. The Feel of Freedom: Moving About7. Back to Work: The Old Compulsions8. Back to Work: The New Dependency9. The Gospel and the Primer10. Becoming a People

Winthrop D. Jordan

Provides a detailed history of the United States from the first people to migrate there in the 1400's to Bush's presidency in the 1990's

The United States

Discusses inequalities that have persisted despite the end of Jim Crow laws, covering the treatment of African American soldiers during World War II and the high incarceration rate of black men.

The Long Death of Jim Crow

How Free Is Free?

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, The New York Times Book Review) aims to show how, during the Civil War and after Emancipation, blacks and whites interacted in ways that dramatized not only their mutual dependency, but the ambiguities and tensions that had always been latent in "the peculiar institution." Contents 1. "The Faithful Slave" 2. Black Liberators 3. Kingdom Comin' 4. Slaves No More 5. How Free is Free? 6. The Feel of Freedom: Moving About 7. Back to Work: The Old Compulsions 8. Back to Work: The New Dependency 9. The Gospel and the Primer 10. Becoming a People

". . . no American can be pleased with the treatment of Negro Americans, North and South, in the years before the Civil War. In his clear, lucid account of the Northern phase of the story Professor Litwack has performed a notable service."—John Hope Franklin, Journal of Negro Education "For a searching examination of the North Star Legend we are indebted to Leon F. Litwack. . . ."—C. Vann Woodward, The American Scholar

The Negro in the Free States

North of Slavery

August Meier

Offers profiles of seventeen nineteenth century Black men and women, including Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas, and Mary Church Terrell

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