Red, White and Black, 7th edition

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• Uses a Cultural-Historical Approach - This title examines the various cultures that were transplanted into North America and how they interacted. This edition uses new research to embed the history of early North America more firmly in an Atlantic basin framework.

• Offers an All-Inclusive Perspective - The narrative explores the interaction of many people at all levels of society, from various cultural backgrounds and across the centuries.   

• Speaks for the “Historically Voiceless”— The text considers the lives of slaves, Indians, white indentured servants and those who arrived with high hopes but remained in the lower stratum of white colonial society.

• Presents African-Americans as Active Participants in the Cultural Process—The narrative draws upon the work of African and African-American historians to reflect responses to enslavement and economic contributions made by enslaved Africans.

Chapter 1:

• New archaeological studies, combined with DNA analysis, continue to refine what we know about the timing and sources of the first migration of people from Asia to the Americas thousands of years ago

Chapters 1 and 2:

• Fleshed out how climate change, from about 900 A.D. through the late 1400s when Europeans first reached the Americas, helps us understand the rise and collapse of some early indigenous societies in North America while facilitating the advent of the agricultural revolution that swept over most parts of the Americas
• Readers will learn more than in previous editions about how European pandemic diseases staggered Native societies while paving the way for European colonization.
• How the vectors of disease affected Native peoples in their engagement with European colonizers also figures in revisions in later chapters.

Chapters 6 and 7

• The publication of the Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (2010) helped to revised this edition
• In essays that capture a wealth of new scholarship and in a magnificent array of maps and charts that graphically display the analysis of some 27,000 slave voyages, we now have at hand important new information on every aspect of the slave trade, from the changing participation of various European maritime nations  to the ages and gender of people captured  in different parts of West and Central Africa, to their destinations in the Americas, to mutinies on slave ships, and much more.
• New scholarship in African history has also allowed the author to give greater texture to the experience of enslaved Africans in the Americas and also their cultural contributions to the lifeways of the European colonizers.
• Women’s history is another sector of abundant new scholarship, and here the author has stitched new insights and research results into the narrative, as well as adding important new works of scholarship to the Further Reading section.

Chapter 11

• On the section about “The Tricolored American Revolution,” readers will find a considerable expansion of how African Americans and Native Americans figured in the epochal upheaval, as it related both to the war for independence with England and to the internal struggle to revitalize and reform the old colonial order

Chapter 12

• Updates have drawn upon a ballooning number of DNA analyses that show a degree of racial boundary crossing never imagined by historians and other social science scholars.