How have historians attempted to define slavery?

How have historians attempted to define slavery? How have historians attempted to define slavery? How can educated individuals and “experts” come up with such various and diverse conclusions? Use the textbook and identify the specific historians, their interpretation of slavery and discuss why they articulated these ideas. Do NOT solely rely on outside sources, go with Hines first and foremost. The African - American Odyssey Click here to walk through a sample chapter. This watermark does not appear in the registered version - http://www.clicktoconvert.com The African - American Odyssey Brief Contents PART I   Becoming African American 1 Africa 2 Middle Passage 3 Black People in Colonial North America, 1526 – 1763 4 Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle for Inde pendence, 1763 – 1783 5 African Americans in the New Nation, 1783 – 1820 PART II Slavery, Abolition, and the Quest for Freedom: The Coming of the Civil War, 1793 – 1861 6 Life in the Cotton Kingdom 7 Free Black People in Antebellum America 8 Opposition to Slavery, 1800 – 1833 9 Let Your Motto Be Resistance, 1833 – 1850 10 “ And Black People Were at the Heart of It ” : The United States Disunites over Slavery PART III The Civil War, Emancipation, and Black Reconstruction The Second American Revolution 11 Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War 12 The Meaning of Freedom: The Promise of Reconstruction, 1865 – 1868 13 The Meaning of Freedom: The Failure of Reconstruction PART IV Searching for Safe Spaces 14 White Supremacy Triumphant: African Americans in the South in th e Late Nineteenth Century 15 Black Southerners Challenge White Supremacy 16 Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African Americans in the Early Twentieth Century 17 African Americans and the 1920s PART V The Great Depression and World War II 18 The Great Depression and The New Deal 19 Black Culture and Society in the 1930s and 1940s 20 The World War II Era and Seeds of a Revolution PART VI The Black Revolution 21 The Freedom Movement, 1954 – 1965 22 The Struggle Continues, 1965 – 1980 23 Black Politics, White Backlash, 1980 to Present 24 African Americans at the Dawn of the New Millenium Epilogue: “ A Nation Within a Nation ” This watermark does not appear in the registered version - http://www.clicktoconvert.com The African - American Odyssey From the Preface "One ever feels his two - ness , — an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body."  W. E. B. Du Bo is, 1897 . . . T he African - American Odyssey tells the story of African Americans a story that begins in Afri ca, where the people who were to become African Americans began thei r long, turbulent, and difficult journey, a journey marked by sustained suffering as well as perseverance, bravery, and achi evement. It includes the rich culture — at once splendidly distinctive and tightly intertwined with a br oader American culture — that African Americans have nurtured throughout their history. And it includes the many - faceted quest for freedom in which African Americans have sought to counter white oppression and racism with the egalitarian spirit of the Declaration of Independence t hat American society professes to embody. Nurtured by black historian Carter G. Woodson during the early d ecades of the twentieth century, African - American history has blossomed as a field of study since the 195 0s. Books and articles have appeared on almost every facet of black life. Yet this surv ey is the first comprehensive college textbook of the African - American experience. It draws on recent research to present blac k history in a clear and direct manner, within a broad social, cultural, and political framework. It als o provides thorough covera ge of African - American women as active builders of black culture. This watermark does not appear in the registered version - http://www.clicktoconvert.com The African - American Odyssey Part - opening timelines thematically organize and summarize key events in African - American history to be discussed in the chapters that follow and provide a reference to the many noteworthy individuals who will be introduced within the part. This watermark does not appear in the registered version - http://www.clicktoconvert.com