Daily Life of African Americans in Primary Documents - REVIEW

Daily Life of African Americans in Primary Documents [2 volumes]

Herbert C. Covey and Dwight Eisnach, Editors

This two-volume set provides readers with a balanced collection of materials that captures the wide-ranging experiences of African American people over the history of America. Volume One begins with the enslavement and transportation of slaves to North America and ends with the Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction; Volume Two continues with the end of the Civil War and Reconstruction through the election of Barack Obama to the American presidency.

Each volume provides a chronology of major events, a historic overview, and sections devoted to the domestic, material, economic, intellectual, political, leisure, and religious life of African Americans for the respective time spans. Volume One covers a wide variety of topics from a multitude of perspectives in such areas as enslavement, life during the Civil War, common foods, housing, clothing, political opinions, and similar topics. Volume Two addresses the civil rights movement, court cases, life under Jim Crow, Reconstruction, busing, housing segregation, and more.

Each volume includes 100-110 primary sources with suggested readings from government publications, court testimony, census data, interviews, newspaper accounts, period appropriate letters, Work Progress Administration interviews, sermons, laws, diaries, and reports.

Herbert C. Covey has a PhD in sociology from the University of Colorado at Boulder and is acting director of the Adams County Human Services Department.

Dwight Eisnach has a BA in journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder and is a freelance writer.

Greenwood Publishers

ISBN: 978-1-4408-6666-1