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Tables of Contents for Freedom's Unfinished Revolution
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
viii
Eric Foner
Foreword by the Teachers Advisory Committee
ix
Preface
xi
Introduction: History Is Us
Historian W. E. B. DuBois argues that slaves played a key role in their own emancipation.
1
16
PART ONE: SLAVERY, SECTIONAL STRIFE, AND WAR
Timeline
11
2
Introduction
13
4
The Resistance to Slavery Grows
17
20
An interview with an ex-slave by the Federal Writers Project in the 1930s
Nat Turner tells the story of his 1831 slave revolt
An African-American folktale
A militant call for freedom in 1829 by an African-American abolitionist
Frederick Douglass: ``If there is no struggle, there is no progress,'' 1857
A slavemaster reacts to Nat Turner's slave revolt, 1831.
Westward Expansion, Sectional Strife, and Civil War
37
24
An ex-slave tells of the impact of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act on free black communities
Rescuing a fugitive slave from bounty hunters, 1859
The southern press applauds the beating of an abolitionist senator, 1856
A letter to John Brown in prison, 1859
A death row letter from a fugitive slave who raided Harpers Ferry with John Brown in 1859.
PART TWO: THE CIVIL WAR
Timeline
57
2
Introduction
59
2
War Aims: Union or Freedom
61
24
Abraham Lincoln: ``My paramount aim is to save the Union,'' 1862
Harriet Tubman: Kill the Snake Before It Kills You, 1862
Frederick Douglass: ``We strike at the effect and leave the cause unharmed,'' 1861
African Americans offer to recruit freedom fighters for the Union Army, 1861
``Contraband'' slaves change how Union soldiers think about slavery, 1862
An escaped slave joins Union forces, 1862
A southern newspaper sees slavery as a military advantage, 1861
General Benjamin Butler welcomes fleeing slaves to Union lines, 1861
A Union officer refuses to allow his men to become ``slavehounds,'' 1862
A slaveholder who is a loyal Union officer makes a complaint, 1862.
The Home Fronts
85
22
The war diary of a plantation mistress, 1861--63
An African-American newspaper responds to mob violence, 1862
A New York Times editorial on the New York City draft riots, 1863
A rioter complains to the New York Times, 1863
An eyewitness account of the Richmond bread riot, 1863
A son asks the Virginia governor to pardon his mother, 1863
The Richmond free market, 1863
A Confederate soldier complains about hoarding and price gouging, 1864.
Soldiers' Lives
107
20
The all-black Second South Carolina volunteers raid a plantation to free slaves, 1863
``My God, will no one have mercy and kill me?'' 1863
The agony and ecstasy of battle, 1862
Frederick Douglass: ``Fighting rebels with one hand,'' 1861
``Press gangs'' raid freedmen's homes, 1863
African-American soldiers protest unequal pay, 1864
``The colored troops were wild with joy,'' 1864
African-American soldiers liberate Charleston, South Carolina, 1865
An African-American soldier is reunited with his mother, 1865.
Retreat, Advance, and Victory: The Triumph of the Union
127
24
Sherman's Field Order Number 15, 1865
The Savannah Agenda: A Blueprint for Freedom, 1865
Emancipated slaves settle Skidaway Island: ``It was Plymouth colony repeating itself,'' 1865.
PART THREE: RECONSTRUCTION
Timeline
145
2
Introduction
147
4
``Nobody Knows the Trouble I Feel''
151
20
Emancipated slaves ask, ``What's the use of working for our driver or massa?'' 1862
Freedmen send a petition to President Lincoln, 1864
President Lincoln sends a judge to investigate, 1864
The promise of forty acres to every freedman, 1865
An African-American soldier preaches militancy to freedmen, 1865
Freedmen refuse to surrender a plantation, 1866.
Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom
171
22
Are emancipated slaves justified in taking their master's property? 1865
A freedman declares, ``The kitchen of the big house is my share,'' 1865
Could masters survive without slaves?
``Many of the Negroes were supporting little schools,'' 1866
``A pile of books is seen in almost every cabin,'' 1869
``I never saw children so eager to learn,'' 1864
Freedmen defend their school against a mob, 1866
``Slaves had religion, too, and it wasn't cold and `proper' like in the white folks' church''
An eyewitness account of a ring shout, 1869
A freedwoman describes a religious meeting, 1865
``Their long-silent preachers want to preach & the people prefer them,'' 1863
James Baldwin: ``The temple rocked with the power of God,'' 1952
From the African ring shout to Twentieth-century jazz
Bernice Reagon on the links between African-American music, religion, culture, and the civil rights movement, 1986
A slaveholder despairs after emancipation
A slaveholder expresses defiance after emancipation, 1865.
Reconstruction or Reconciliation: Congress vs. the President
193
24
The Fourteenth Amendment, 1868
A petition asking that the Fourteenth Amendment give women the right to vote, 1868
``I cannot sign the petition,'' 1868
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on the failure of male abolitionists to push the vote for women as well as freedmen, 1869
Susan B. Anthony: ``Being persons, then, women are citizens,'' 1872
NAACP brief: Brown v. Board of Education, 1953.
Reconstruction in the South: Pushing From the Bottom Up
217
28
Dr. Toer's magic lantern show stirs up controversy, 1867
A debate about schools at the South Carolina constitutional convention, 1868
A novelist looks at the constitutional debate about South Carolina schools, 1944
An African-American judge sets race relations straight
An African-American rice planter asks freedmen to end their strike, 1876
A bestselling novel portrays Reconstruction from the planter's point of view, 1905.
The Promised Land
245
16
A freedman's view: do ex-slaves have the right to their master's land? 1866
A confederate lawyer's view: Do ex-slaves have the right to their master's land? 1866
Theodore Roosevelt justifies confiscation of Indian lands, 1889
Congressman Thaddeus Stevens makes the case for confiscation and redistribution of planter lands, 1865
The New York Times opposes confiscation, 1867
An emancipated slave tells why land is so important, 1867
Frederick Douglass on the failure to redistribute land.
Retreat
261
16
The KKK attacks schools, 1871
The KKK targets churches, 1871
Stealing the vote
The South Carolina Democratic party organizes a campaign of violence, 1876
A Union League prepares to defend itself against the KKK in Alabama, 1868
The KKK assassinates an African-American leader, 1868
Violence in a Mississippi courtroom, 1871.
Epilogue: The Unfinished Revolution
277
1
Timeline
278
12
Recommended Reading, ASHP Videos & CD-ROMs
290
6
Index
296