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African American History
: The Dawn of Freedom: The Civil War and the Reconstruction of a Nation
Editor in Chief:
Claudrena Harold, University of Virginia
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1. Many Thousand Gone: The Black Experience in Colonial America
2. In Hope of Liberty: African American Life in the Age of Revolution
3. Now Comes the Test: Race, Nation, and the Limits of Freedom in the Early Republic
4. There Is a River: Black Protest in Antebellum America
5. A Divided Nation: The Turbulent Fifties
6. The Dawn of Freedom: The Civil War and the Reconstruction of a Nation
7. The Betrayal of the Negro: Black Accommodation and Black Protest in the Era of Jim Crow
8. If We Must Die: World War I and the New Negro Renaissance
9. Making a New Deal: African Americans, Organized Labor, and Shifting Political Alliances
10. Double V: African Americans, World War II, and the Dawn of Cold War Era Politics
11. From Montgomery to Selma: The Modern Civil Rights Movement
12. Fire Next Time: Martin Luther King, the Poor People’s Campaign, and Opposition to the Vietnam War
13. Say It Loud: Black Power, Black Feminism, and the Search for a New Radical Paradigm
14. From Protest to Politics: Black Life in the Post–Civil Rights Era
15. From Katrina to Obama: Race in the New Millennium
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Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
Frederick Douglass: "Men of Color, To Arms!" (1863)
U.S. War Department General Order 143 Establishing the Bureau of U.S. Colored Troops (1863)
Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1865)
Andrew Johnson: Veto of the Civil Rights Act (1866)
Henry McNeal Turner: Speech on His Expulsion from the Georgia Legislature (1868)
Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1868)
Ku Klux Klan Act (1871)
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (1850)
Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The Fugitive Slave Law" (1854)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Speech for the Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society (1860)
Virginia Slave Code (1860)
Wendell Phillips: "Under the Flag" (1861)
Frederick Douglass: The Reasons for Our Troubles (1862)
Treaty between United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade (1862)
Abraham Lincoln: Letter to James C. Conkling (1863)
James H. Payne: Letter about “Sister Penny” (1864)
Thomas Morris Chester: Civil War Dispatches (1864)
Convention of Colored Men: Address to the Loyal Citizens of the United States and to Congress (1865)
Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia (1865)
Black Code of Mississippi (1865)
William Lloyd Garrison: Valedictory Editorial of the Liberator (1865)
William T. Sherman: Special Field Order No. 15 (1865)
Report of Benjamin C. Truman to the U.S. Senate (1866)
Testimony before the Joint Committee on Reconstruction on Atrocities in the South against Blacks (1866)
Andrew Johnson: Veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill (1866)
Civil Rights Act of 1866 (1866)
Howell Cobb: Letter to J. D. Hoover (1868)
Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan (1869)
Initiation Charge of the Ku Klux Klan (1869)
Ulysses S. Grant: Special Message to Congress Announcing Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment (1870)
Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1870)
The Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States (1872)
Richard Harvey Cain: "All That We Ask Is Equal Laws, Equal Legislation, and Equal Rights" (1874)
United States v. Cruikshank (1876)
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