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Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans, With Documents, Updated for the AP® Course
Third EditionAlysha Butler; Rachel Williams-Giordano; Deborah Gray White; Mia Bay; Waldo E. Martin Jr.
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Freedom on My Mind, in a new AP® edition, will provide you with all the resources, readings, sources, AP® exam practice, and AP® exam tips you’ll need to achieve something great in the exciting new AP® African American Studies course.
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Unit 1 Origins of the African Diaspora
CHAPTER 1 African Origins, Beginnings to ca. 1600 C.E.
CHAPTER 2 From Africa to America, 1441–1808
Unit 2 Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance
CHAPTER 3 Slavery in North America, 1619–1740
CHAPTER 4 African Americans in the Age of Revolution, 1741–1783
CHAPTER 5 Slavery and Freedom in the New Republic, 1775–1820
CHAPTER 6 Black Life in the Slave South, 1820–1860
CHAPTER 7 The Northern Black Freedom Struggle and the Coming of the Civil War, 1830–1860
CHAPTER 8 Freedom Rising: The Civil War, 1861–1865
Unit 3 The Practice of Freedom
CHAPTER 9 Reconstruction: The Making and Unmaking of a Revolution, 1865–1877
CHAPTER 10 Black Life and Culture during the Nadir, 1877–1915
CHAPTER 11 The New Negro Comes of Age, 1915–1930
Unit 4 Movements and Debates
CHAPTER 12 Catastrophe, Recovery, and Renewal, 1930–1942
CHAPTER 13 Fighting for a Double Victory in the World War II Era, 1938–1950
CHAPTER 14 The Early Civil Rights Movement, 1945–1963
CHAPTER 15 Multiple Meanings of Freedom: The Movement Broadens, 1961–1976
CHAPTER 16 Racial Progress in an Era of Backlash and Change, 1965–2000
CHAPTER 17 African Americans in the Twenty-First Century