Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America, African Roots through the Civil War / Edition 1

by Lois Horton

Overview

Since Hard Road to Freedom was released, it has garnered universal acclaim. Rutgers University Press is pleased to announce the availability of this book in two separate volumes for courses in African American history that span two semesters. Volume I includes the following chapters:

-Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade
-The Evolution of Slavery in British North America
-Slavery and Freedom in the Age of Revolution
-The Early Republic and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom
-Slavery and the Slave Community
-Free People of Color and the Fight against Slavery
-From Militancy to Civil War
Features of Volume I include:

-Timelines for each chapter
-Sidebars, highlighting significant African Americans (some well known, some lesser known)
-Transcriptions of significant historical documents, ranging from autobiographies, legal decrees, speeches, and military orders

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813531809
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	08/09/2002
Series:	Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

James Oliver Horton, the Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History at the George Washington University, directs the Africa American Communities Project at the Smithsonian Institution.

Lois E. Horton is professor of sociology and American studies at George Mason University.

They are coauthors of several books, including In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860 and Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North.