Volume 1. Part I. Historical Overview, 1492-1865. Setting the stage for enslavement/The Middle Passage -- Plantation life -- Resistance to slavery -- Clouds before the storm -- The Civil War -- Part II. Domestic life. Exploration and setting the stage for enslavement -- Capture in the middle passage -- Laws -- Domestics versus field hands -- The treatment of slaves -- Acts of resistance -- Community -- Marriage and family -- Exploration and its connection to slavery -- The initial capture -- Enslavement -- Colonies begin to codify slavery -- Working the plantation -- Cruelty towards slaves -- Slave sales -- Freedom at any risk -- Family -- Part III. The economic life. Plantation management and control -- Self-reliance -- Managing the plantation -- Seeking independence -- Free Black Americans -- Part IV. Material life. Housing -- Food -- Clothing -- Medical care and health -- Slave quarters -- Meals and preparation -- Descriptions of slave attire in runaway ads -- Addressing slave health -- Part V. Intellectual life. Abolition -- The struggle for education -- Free Black Americans -- The fire to free slaves -- Examples of learning -- Struggling to be free -- Part VI. Political life. Laws and proclamations -- Manumission -- Black codes -- Fugitives, suffrage, and emancipation -- Granting freedom -- Laws restricting Blacks -- Black nationalism -- Part VII. Civil War life. The Civil War's impact on everyday life -- African American Civil War military experience -- Contrabands -- Civil War military experiences -- Part VIII. Leisure life. African Americans as entertainment -- Holidays, frolics, and celebrations -- The arts and recreation -- Black Americans put on display -- Memories of slave celebrations -- Arts and the power to create -- Part IX. Religious life. Religion and abolition -- Religious conversion -- Spirituals -- Religious leaders among first abolitionists -- Modes of worship -- Establishing African American churches -- Choosing Christianity -- Alternative religion -- volume 2. Part I. Historical overview, 1865-2020.The collapse of the Confederacy and Reconstruction (1865-1877) -- The Jim Crow South -- Mass migrations -- Protests and massacres -- The Great depression, World War II, and the 1940s -- 1950s-1970s -- 1980s-1990s -- 2000-2020 -- Part II. Domestic life. Life after slavery -- Successful Black communities -- Race massacres -- Daily life under Jim Crow -- Daily life under segregation -- Part III. Economic and material life. Economic life after slavery -- The Great Depression -- African American socioeconomic status -- Food -- Clothing -- Health care -- Labor unions -- Business success -- Socioeconomic status of Black Americans -- Part IV. Intellectual life. The Great debate -- Education and learning -- Contributions to science and culture -- Harlem Renaissance and the great migration -- Part V. Political life. Laws -- Black codes -- Reconstruction -- Elected African Americans -- Black power -- Part VI. The struggle for civil rights. Civil rights organizations -- The decade of protest -- Civil rights martyrs -- Court cases -- Lynching -- Assassinations -- Voting rights -- Medical experimentation -- Civil rights movement -- Police and criminal justice relations -- Part VII. Military life.Military intervention in civil affairs -- Military service and segregation -- Part VIII. Leisure life. Entertainment -- Literature -- Music -- Sports -- Part IX. Religious life. Alternatives to Christianity -- The Black church in the twenty-first century -- African American spirituals -- Sermons.
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