To Make Our World Anew: Volume I: A History of African Americans to 1880Robin D. G. Kelley, Earl Lewis Oxford University Press, 28. 4. 2005 - Počet stran: 320 The two volumes of Kelley and Lewis's To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, right up to today's black filmmakers and politicians. This first volume begins with the story of Africa and its origins, then presents an overview of the Atlantic slave trade, and the forced migration and enslavement of between ten and twenty million people. It covers the Haitian Revolution, which ended victoriously in 1804 with the birth of the first independent black nation in the New World, and slave rebellions and resistance in the United States in the years leading up to the Civil War. There are vivid accounts of the Civil War and Reconstruction years, the backlash of the notorious "Jim Crow" laws and mob lynchings, and the founding of key black educational institutions, such as Howard University in Washington, D.C. Here is a panoramic view of African-American life, rich in gripping first-person accounts and short character sketches that invite readers to relive history as African Americans have experienced it. |
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... cultural developments in the modern West . Black labor generated unprecedented wealth and helped give birth to capitalism ; black resis- tance slowly destroyed the system of slavery and prompted new methods of coer- cion and punishment ...
... cultural developments in the modern West . Black labor generated unprecedented wealth and helped give birth to capitalism ; black resis- tance slowly destroyed the system of slavery and prompted new methods of coer- cion and punishment ...
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... cultural life of the coun- try . Ever aware of the implication of freedom , they spread word of their own efforts throughout the Americas , and took pleasure as other members of the African dias- pora liberated themselves in Haiti . The ...
... cultural life of the coun- try . Ever aware of the implication of freedom , they spread word of their own efforts throughout the Americas , and took pleasure as other members of the African dias- pora liberated themselves in Haiti . The ...
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... cultural traditions that met their needs . The family was the basis of their social organization . Kinship ties , which united mem- bers of an ethnic group , were particularly strong . African societies were also deeply religious ; most ...
... cultural traditions that met their needs . The family was the basis of their social organization . Kinship ties , which united mem- bers of an ethnic group , were particularly strong . African societies were also deeply religious ; most ...
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... culturally , had black skin , and were not Christians . Africans were people set apart as the " other , " persons whose differences the Europeans neither appreciated , respected , nor understood . Not until the nine- teenth century ...
... culturally , had black skin , and were not Christians . Africans were people set apart as the " other , " persons whose differences the Europeans neither appreciated , respected , nor understood . Not until the nine- teenth century ...
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... culturally and politically diverse nature of the regions from which the slaves came as well as the diversity of the African continent as a whole . The over- whelming majority — perhaps eighty percent of the victims of the human traffic ...
... culturally and politically diverse nature of the regions from which the slaves came as well as the diversity of the African continent as a whole . The over- whelming majority — perhaps eighty percent of the victims of the human traffic ...
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16191776 | 53 |
17761804 | 103 |
18041860 | 169 |
18601880 | 227 |
Chronology | 281 |
Further Reading | 287 |
Picture Credits | 298 |
Contributors | 299 |
Index | 301 |
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