The African-American Odyssey, Combined Volume, 7th edition

Published by Pearson (May 1, 2019) © 2017

  • Darlene Clark Hine Northwestern University
  • William C. Hine South Carolina State University
  • Stanley C. Harrold South Carolina State University

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For courses in African American History.

A compelling story of agency, survival, struggle and triumph over adversity

The African-American Odyssey instills in students an appreciation of the central place of African Americans in American history. The authors present a clear overview of Black history within a broad social, cultural and political framework. They trace the long and turbulent journey of African Americans, the rich culture they have nurtured throughout their history, and the quest for freedom through which they've countered oppression and racism.

The 7th Edition covers key events during Barack Obama's second term, as well as the emergence of the Black Lives Matter Movement.

Hallmark features of this title

  • Part-opening timelines group key events thematically and highlight the many noteworthy individuals discussed.
  • Chronologies throughout the text provide snapshots of the temporal relationships among significant events.
  • Voices boxes offer students first-person perspectives on key events in African-American history. Brief introductions and study questions help students analyze these primary source documents and connect the topics to the larger narrative.
  • Profile boxes provide biographical sketches that highlight both prominent individuals and ordinary people, illuminating common experiences among African Americans at various times and places.
  • Connecting the Past essays examine important milestones of the African-American experience over time.

New and updated features of this title

  • UPDATED: In Chapter 2, the sections on “Slave Trade in Africa” and “Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade” have been combined, and the section on “The Ending of the Atlantic Slave Trade” has been revised and expanded.
  • NEW: Chapter 11 includes a new section on the Louisiana Native Guards and their Black and white officers.
  • NEW: Chapter 15 features a new section on the emergence of gospel music, as well as a new discussion on African Americans' role in the development and growth of horse racing.
  • UPDATED: Part 6 includes a significantly updated timeline that covers The Black Revolution to the present.
  • NEW: Chapter 23 includes an added discussion of President Obama's second term election and several of the most consequential recent accomplishments of his presidency, including normalization of relations with Cuba and the Iran nuclear agreement.
  • UPDATED: Chapter 24 includes updated statistical charts relating to mass incarceration, black family composition, changes in the number of children living with single mothers, and health care statistics.

Highlights of the DIGITAL UPDATE for Revel (available for Fall 2023 classes)

Instructors, contact your sales rep to ensure you have the most recent version of the course.

  • UPDATED: The Digital Update offers thoroughly refreshed content reflecting the latest scholarship and events. Highlights include:
    • Significant updates on recent events, including coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement and 21st-century efforts to reduce voting by Black people
    • Expanded coverage of key topics and figures such as the Black Codes during Reconstruction, the Voting Rights Act, Amy Jacques Garvey and Lorraine Hansberry
    • New contemporary sources in many of the bibliographies

Features of Revel for the 7th Edition; published 2017

  • An end-of-chapter source collection includes 3 to 5 relevant documents, each with header notes, questions and audio.
  • Interactive maps throughout the text enable students to pan and zoom as needed and to toggle on and off important details.
  • Selected photos include “hotspots” on which students can click to learn more about important details related to the image.
  • Retracing the Odyssey, Recommended Reading and an additional bibliography assist students in expanding their research capabilities.
  • An interactive chapter review section offers a timeline, key term flashcards, an image gallery, a video gallery and review questions.

PART 1: BECOMING AFRICAN AMERICAN

  1. Africa, ca. 6000 bce to ca. 1600 ce
  2. Middle Passage, ca. 1450 to 1809
  3. Black People in Colonial North America, 1526 to 1763
  4. Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle for Independence, 1763 to 1783
  5. African Americans in the New Nation, 1783 to 1820

PART 2: SLAVERY, ABOLITION AND THE QUEST FOR FREEDOM: THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1793 to 1861

  1. Life in the Cotton Kingdom, 1793 to 1861
  2. Free Black People in Antebellum America, 1820 to 1861
  3. Opposition to Slavery, 1730 to 1833
  4. Let Your Motto Be Resistance, 1833 to 1850
  5. “And Black People Were at the Heart of It”: The United States Disunites Over Slavery, 1846 to 1861

PART 3: THE CIVIL WAR, EMANCIPATION AND BLACK RECONSTRUCTION: THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION

  1. Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War, 1861 to 1865
  2. The Meaning of Freedom: The Promise of Reconstruction, 1865 to 1868
  3. The Meaning of Freedom: The Failure of Reconstruction, 1868 to 1877

PART 4: SEARCHING FOR SAFE SPACES

  1. White Supremacy Triumphant: African Americans in the Late Nineteenth Century, 1877 to 1895
  2. African Americans Challenge White Supremacy, 1877 to 1918
  3. Conciliation, Agitation and Migration: African Americans in the Early Twentieth Century, 1895 to 1925
  4. African Americans and the 1920s, 1918 to 1929

PART 5: THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND WORLD WAR II

  1. Black Protest, Great Depression and the New Deals, 1929 to 1940
  2. Meanings of Freedom: Black Culture and Society, 1930 to 1950
  3. The World War II Era and the Seeds of a Revolution, 1940 to 1950

PART 6: THE BLACK REVOLUTION

  1. The Long Freedom Movement, 1950 to 1970
  2. Black Nationalism, Black Power and Black Arts, 1965 to 1980
  3. Black Politics and President Barack Obama, 1980 to 2016
  4. African Americans End the Twentieth Century and Enter into the Twenty-First Century, 1980 to 2016

About our authors

Darlene Clark Hine is Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and Professor of History at Northwestern University. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as past president of the Organization of American Historians and of the Southern Historical Association. In 2014 President Barack Obama awarded Hine the National Humanities Medal (2013) for her work in African American and in Black Women’s History. In 2015, the National Women’s History Project honored Hine for her contributions to women’s history. Hine received her BA at Roosevelt University in Chicago, and her MA and PhD from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. Hine has taught at South Carolina State University and at Purdue University. She was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University. She is the author and/or coeditor of 20 books, most recently The Black Chicago Renaissance (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012), Black Europe and the African Diaspora (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010), coedited with Trica Danielle Keaton and Stephen Small; Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005), coedited with Barry Gaspar; and The Harvard Guide to African-American History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), coedited with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Leon Litwack. She coedited a 2-volume set with Earnestine Jenkins, A Question of Manhood: A Reader in U.S. Black Men’s History and Masculinity (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999, 2001); and with Jacqueline McLeod, Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000). With Kathleen Thompson she wrote A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America (New York: Broadway Books, 1998), and edited with Barry Gaspar More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996). She won the Dartmouth Medal of the American Library Association for the reference volumes coedited with Elsa Barkley Brown and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (New York: Carlson Publishing, 1993). She is the author of Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890–1950 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989). She continues to work on the forthcoming book project, The Black Professional Class: Physicians, Nurses, Lawyers, and the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement, 1890–1955.

Now retired, William C. Hine taught history for many years at South Carolina State University.

Stanley Harrold is Professor of History at South Carolina State University and coeditor of Southern Dissent, a book series published by the University Press of Florida. Harrold has a BA from Allegheny College and an MA and PhD from Kent State University. He has received four National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, most recently in 2013 and 2014. His books include Gamaliel Bailey and Antislavery Union (Kent State University Press, 1986), The Abolitionists and the South (University Press of Kentucky, 1995), Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America, coedited with John R. McKivigan (University of Tennessee Press, 1999), American Abolitionists (Taylor & Francis, 2001), Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828–1865 (Louisiana State University Press, 2003), The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves (University Press of Kentucky, 2004), Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Reader (Wiley, 2007), and Border War: Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). In 2011, Border War won the Southern Historical Association’s 2011 James A. Rawley Award and received an honorable mention for the Lincoln Prize. Harrold has recently published articles in North & South, Organization of American Historian’s Magazine of History and Ohio Valley History.

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