Handbook for students and the general reader.

"A Bergman book."

Slavery. The beginning (1492-1618) ; Under British rule (1916-1792) ; From the cotton gin to the Emancipation Proclamation (1793-1864) -- Reconstruction (1865-1877) -- "Separate but equal". The darkest period (1878-1908) ; The genesis of the NAACP (1909-1932) ; From the New Deal to Brown v. Board of Education (1933-1954) -- "With all deliberate speed" (1955-1968).