A Companion to African American History (Blackwell Companions to American History Series) Book

	Introduction	1
1	Life and work in West Africa	5
2	Africans in Europe prior to the Atlantic slave trade	23
3	The African and European slave trades	48
4	Africans in the Caribbean and Latin America : the post-emancipation diaspora	67
5	Ethnicity, nationality, and race in colonial America	89
6	Not chattel, not free : quasi-free blacks in the colonial era	105
7	Africans and Native Americans	121
8	Origins and institutionalization of American slavery	143
9	Labor in the slave community, 1700-1860	159
10	Spirituality and socialization in the slave community	176
11	Slave rebels and black abolitionists	199
12	The Americanization of Africans and the Africanization of America	219
13	African Americans and an Atlantic world culture	235
14	African Americans and the American Civil War	257
15	Jim Crowed - emancipation betrayed : African Americans confront the veil	271
16	African American religious and fraternal organizations	285
17	The quest for "book learning" : African American education in slavery and freedom	295
18	The growth of African American cultural and social institutions	312
19	African American entrepreneurship in slavery and freedom	325
20	The black press	332
21	The black soldier in two world wars	349
22	Identity, patriotism, and protest on the wartime home front, 1917-19, 1941-5	364
23	Gender and class in post-emancipation black communities	381
24	African American women since the Second World War : perspectives on gender and race	395
25	Striving for place : lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people	412
26	Exodus from the South	449
27	Development, growth, and transformation in higher education	463
28	Identity, protest, and outreach in the arts	476
29	Searching for a new freedom	499
30	"Race rebels" : from indigenous insurgency to hip-hop mania	512
31	Searching for place : nationalism, separatism, and Pan-Africanism	529