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
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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
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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.
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The African
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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.
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