Encyclopedia of African American History

List of Entries  xxiii

Transmigration

Turner, Lorenzo Dow

Walker, Margaret

Wonder, Stevie

Wo r k S o n g s

Wright, Richard

Political Activity and Resistance

to Oppression: From the American

Revolution to the Civil War

Abelman v. Booth

Abolition, Slave Trade

Abolition, Slavery

Adams, John Quincy

African Civilization Society

African Dorcas Association

African Free Schools

African Grove Th eater

African Methodist Episcopal Church

Allen, Richard

American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society

American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS)

American Colonization Society

American Moral Reform Society

American Revolution

Amistad

Anglo-African Magazine

Antislavery Societies

Attucks, Crispus

August First Celebrations

Ball, Charles

Banneker, Benjamin

Bell, Philip A.

Benevolent Societies

Birney, James

Boston Massacre

Boyer, Jean Pierre

Brown, John

Brown, William Wells

Brown Fellowship Society

Carpetbaggers

Cary, Mary Ann Shadd

Cinque, Joseph

Clarkson, Th omas

Gumbo
Herskovits, Melville
High John the Conqueror Root
Hoodoo
Hurston, Zora Neale
Hush Harbors
Infanticide
Jambalaya
Jas
Jazz
John the Slave Tales
Joplin, Scott
Juba Dance
Kongo Cosmogram
Kwanzaa
Laveau, Marie
Locke, Alain
Mardi Gras
Miscegenation
Mulatto
Names Debate
Negritude
Obeah
Octoroon
Parker, Charlie
Pinkster Festival
Poisonings
Prince Hall Masonry
Pryor, Richard
Quadroon
Ragtime
Ring Shout
Rogers, Joel Augustus
Root Doctors
Salt-Water Negroes
Sambo
Sanchez, Sonia
Shakur, Tupac
Shrine of the Black Madonna
Signifying
Slave Culture
Slave Religion
Soul Food
Sweetgrass Baskets
Syncretism
Tituba