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African American History and Culture

It is important to learn about the history and heritage of African Americans that extends back into antiquity because throughout slavery and afterwards, people of European descent advanced what anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits called the “Myths of the Negro Past.

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Lumen Learning
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Lumen Learning
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CC BY-SA
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Contents· 59 sections
  1. 01: African Origins History and Culture
  2. 1.01: Introduction
  3. 1.02: Africans before Captivity
  4. 1.03: Medieval West Africa
  5. 1.04: West Africa 1300 1800AD
  6. 1.05: West Central Africa 14th 18thCenturies
  7. 02: The African Slave trade and the Atlantic World
  8. 2.01: Introduction
  9. 2.02: The Transatlantic Slave Trade
  10. 2.03: Which Europeans Trafficked in Slaves
  11. 2.04: Summary
  12. 2.05: Primary Sources
  13. 03: The Development Indentured Servitude and Racial Slavery in the American Colonies
  14. 3.01: Introduction
  15. 3.02: The Settling of Virginia
  16. 3.03: Tightening the Bonds of Slavery
  17. 3.04: Africans in the Low Country
  18. 04: African Americans and the American Revolution
  19. 4.01: Introduction
  20. 4.02: African Americans and the Rhetoric of Revolution
  21. 4.03: Fighting Their Way to Freedom
  22. 4.04: The Impact of the Revolution on Slavery
  23. 4.05: Primary Sources
  24. 05: Creating an African-American Culture
  25. 5.01: Introduction
  26. 5.02: Language
  27. 5.03: Spiritual Life- Public and Secret
  28. 5.04: Performing Culture in Music and Dance
  29. 06: The Abolitionist Movement
  30. 6.01: Introduction
  31. 6.02: The Abolitionist Movement
  32. 6.03: Atlantic Origins of Reform
  33. 6.04: William Lloyd Garrison
  34. 6.05: Frederick Douglass
  35. 6.06: Primary Sources
  36. 07: The Westward Expansion of Slavery
  37. 7.01: Introduction
  38. 7.02: The Creation Of The Cotton Kingdom
  39. 7.03: The Domestic Slave Trade
  40. 7.04: Life as a Slave in the Cotton Kingdom
  41. 7.05: The Free Black Population
  42. 08: Slavery and the Sectional Crisis
  43. 8.01: Introduction
  44. 8.02: The Sectional Crisis
  45. 8.03: The Crisis Joined
  46. 8.04: Free Soil Free Labor Free Men
  47. 8.05: From Sectional Crisis to National Crisis
  48. 09: African Americans and the Civil War
  49. 9.01: Introduction
  50. 9.02: The Election of 1860 and Secession
  51. 9.03: A War for Union (18611862)
  52. 9.04: War for Freedom (18631865)
  53. 9.05: Black Soldiers and Union War Victories (18641865)
  54. 9.06: Primary Sources
  55. 10: Reconstruction
  56. 10.01: Introduction
  57. 10.02: Politics of Reconstruction
  58. 10.03: Racial Violence in Reconstruction
  59. 10.04: The End of Reconstruction