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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... African - American struggle to be free - and remain free - in the United States clashed with the slaveholders's efforts to keep the system alive and profitable . Indeed , the central goal of free blacks in antebellum America , beyond ...
... African - American struggle to be free - and remain free - in the United States clashed with the slaveholders's efforts to keep the system alive and profitable . Indeed , the central goal of free blacks in antebellum America , beyond ...
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... blacks are present in smaller numbers . Regardless of the societies in which they live , these peoples share a ... free . In 1617 the first town or settlement controlled by free blacks in the Americas was established in Mexico . This was ...
... blacks are present in smaller numbers . Regardless of the societies in which they live , these peoples share a ... free . In 1617 the first town or settlement controlled by free blacks in the Americas was established in Mexico . This was ...
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... free blacks and mulattoes ( children of Spaniards and blacks ) in the colony be forced to labor in the mines . Not only would they serve as a substitute for Indian workers , the viceroy reasoned , but they would also earn wages and ...
... free blacks and mulattoes ( children of Spaniards and blacks ) in the colony be forced to labor in the mines . Not only would they serve as a substitute for Indian workers , the viceroy reasoned , but they would also earn wages and ...
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... slaves — or even free persons - in the skilled trades . They feared that the competition from slave labor would lower the wages that they received . In addition , skilled whites wanted to confine blacks to manual labor , believing that ...
... slaves — or even free persons - in the skilled trades . They feared that the competition from slave labor would lower the wages that they received . In addition , skilled whites wanted to confine blacks to manual labor , believing that ...
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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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