Ancestral Africa
Africans and the Atlantic world
Establishing North American slavery
Eighteenth-century slave societies
Give me liberty
Building communities in the early republic
Southern slavery
Antebellum free Blacks
Abolitionism in black and white
Civil War
The promises and pitfalls of Reconstruction
The color line
The era of self-help
In pursuit of democracy
Voices of protest
The arts at home and abroad
The New Deal era
Double V for victory
American dilemmas
We shall overcome
Black power
Progress and poverty
Perspectives on the present.
From slavery to freedom : a history of African Americans by John Hope Franklin. ISBN 9780072963786. Published by McGraw-Hill in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.