A Companion to African American History

This reference book is available online. Chapters are organized into ten parts:
Part I: African and Other Roots; Part II: Africans in Early North America; Part III: In The House of Bondage; Part IV: Transculturation; Part V: The Civil War, Emancipation, and the Quest for Freedom; Part VI: The Maturation of African American Communities and the Emergence of Independent Institutions; Part VII: African Americans and ‘Wars for Democracy’; Part VIII: Gender and Class; Part IX: Migration, Renaissance, and New Beginnings; and Part X: Searching for Place.