Bennett, Lerone

A developmental history of African-American life that explores the experiences of Black slaves from colonial times to emancipation, and examines the changes that shaped African-American life from Reconstruction through the twentieth century, discussing labor, capital, integration, and modern race relations, among other topics.

A developmental history of African-Americans in the United States describing the forces and events that made African-American America what it is today.

Traces black history from its origins in the great empires of western Africa, the transatlantic journey to slavery, through Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the civil rights upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s.