John Hope Franklin was the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History, and for seven years was Professor of Legal History at Duke University Law School. A native of Oklahoma and a graduate of Fisk University (1935), he received the A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in history from Harvard University (1936 and 1941). He taught at a number of institutions, including Fisk, St. Augustines College, and Howard University. In 1956 he went to Brooklyn College as Chair of the Department of History; and in 1964, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago, serving as Chair of the Department of History from 1967 to 1970. At Chicago, he was the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor from 1969 to 1982, when he became Professor Emeritus.Among his many published works are The Free Negro in North Carolina (1943), Reconstruction after the Civil War (1961), A Southern Odyssey (1971), and perhaps his best-known book, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans, now in its ninth edition. In 1990 a collection of essays covering a teaching and writing career of fifty years was published as Race and History: Selected Essays, 1938-1988. At the time of his death in March 2009, he was engaged in research on "Dissidents on the Plantation: Runaway Slaves."During his long career, Professor Franklin was active in numerous professional and educational organizations. For many years he served on the editorial board of the Journal of Negro History. He also served as president of the following organizations:The Southern Historical Association, the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, and the American Historical Association.Dr. Franklin served on many national commissions and delegations, including the National Council on the Humanities, the President's Advisory Commission on Ambassadorial Appointments, and the United States delegation to the 21st General Conference of UNESCO. He was appointed by President Clinton to chair the President's Advisory Board for the One America initiative in June 1997.He was the recipient of many honors. In 1978 Who's Who in America selected him as one of eight Americans who has made significant contributions to society. In 1995 he received the first W.E.B. DuBois Award from the Fisk University Alumni Association, the Organization of American Historians' Award for Outstanding Achievement, the NAACP's Spingarn medal, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In addition to his many awards, Dr. Franklin received honorary degrees from more than one hundred colleges and universities.

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From Slavery to Freedom remains the most revered, respected, and honored text on the market. The preeminent history of African Americans, this best-selling text charts the journey of African Americans from their origins in Africa, through slavery in the Western Hemisphere, struggles for freedom in the West Indies, Latin America, and the United States, various migrations, and the continuing quest for racial equality. Building on John Hope Franklin's classic work, the ninth edition has been thoroughly rewritten by the award-winning scholar Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. It includes new chapters and updated information based on the most current scholarship. With a new narrative that brings intellectual depth and fresh insight to a rich array of topics, the text features greater coverage of ancestral Africa, African American women, differing expressions of protest, local community activism, black internationalism, civil rights and black power, as well as the election of our first African American president in 2008. The text also has a fresh new 4-color design with new charts, maps, photographs, paintings, and illustrations.

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Franklin: From Slavery to Freedom, 10e

CHAPTER 1: Ancestral Africa, Ancient around 500 BCE to 1600 CHAPTER 2: Africans and the Atlantic World, 1492-1800 CHAPTER 3: Establishing North American Slavery, 1520s to 1720s CHAPTER 4: Eighteenth-Century Slave Societies, 1700-1780s CHAPTER 5: Give Me Liberty, 1763-1787 CHAPTER 6: Building Communities in the Early Republic, 1790-1830 CHAPTER 7: Southern Slavery, 1790-1860 CHAPTER 8: Antebellum Free Blacks, 1830-1860 CHAPTER 9: Abolitionism in Black and White, 1820-1860 CHAPTER 10: Civil War, 1861-1865 CHAPTER 11: The Promises and Pitfalls of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 CHAPTER 12: The Color Line, 1877-1917 CHAPTER 13: The Era of Self-Help, 1880-1916 CHAPTER 14: In Pursuit of Democracy, 1914-1919 CHAPTER 15: Voices of Protest, 1910-1928 CHAPTER 16: The Arts at Home and Abroad, 1920s to early 1930s CHAPTER 17: The New Deal Era, 1929-1941 CHAPTER 18: Double V for Victory, 1941-1945 CHAPTER 19: American Dilemmas, 1940-1955 CHAPTER 20: We Shall Overcome, 1947-1967 CHAPTER 21: Black Power, 1955-1980 CHAPTER 22: Progress and Poverty, 1980-2000 CHAPTER 23: Perspectives on the Present, Since 2000