Features:

New Features:

• NEW! Increased emphasis on the slave resistance in Chapter 10.
  
  
• NEW! Expanded coverage of the history, distinctive burdens, opportunities, and achievements of African American women.
  
  
• NEW! Final chapter (Chapter 25) on the most recent developments in the economic, political, and social history of the African American community.
  
  
• NEW! More on the role of African Americans in both the high and popular culture of the United States and new research on the complex role of African Americans as contributors to, powerful cultural symbols/icons in, and consumers of American culture.
  
  
• NEW! "Eyewitness Accounts": quotations of the words and thoughts of individuals in African American History.
  
  
• NEW! Lavishly redesigned with new charts, maps, photographs, paintings, illustrations, and color inserts. A new two-color map workbook.
  
  
• NEW! A website with video clips, research exercises, chapter overviews, review questions with identifications, and student quizzing; a new CD-ROM with similar assets to the website, and a new, three-part video program narrated by the authors.

Retained Features:

• John Hope Franklin is the preeminent historian in African-American History. Dr. Franklin is still heavily involved in the development of the text and narrates portions of the video program with Dr. Moss.
  
  
• Comprehensive Coverage-The text covers important social, political, and cultural aspects African-Americans from their origins in Africa through to the present day better than any other text in the market.
  
  
• Pedagogy-Primary and secondary source boxes, full-color inserts, chapter openers, chapter outlines, marginal notes, tables, charts, maps, photographs, paintings, illustrations and new multi-media package!