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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... laws that tightened the bonds of racial slavery - most notably laws that viii To Make Our World Anew.
... laws that tightened the bonds of racial slavery - most notably laws that viii To Make Our World Anew.
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... laws that made African slavery an inher- ited condition and denied black people the most rudimentary human rights . The slaves did not always cooperate , however . They fought the masters and overseers , ran away , and made the business ...
... laws that made African slavery an inher- ited condition and denied black people the most rudimentary human rights . The slaves did not always cooperate , however . They fought the masters and overseers , ran away , and made the business ...
Strana 7
... laws were passed abolishing the human traffic . In spite of these difficulties , most historians now estimate that the number of Africans who arrived as slaves from 1502 to the mid - nineteenth century amounted to between ten and twelve ...
... laws were passed abolishing the human traffic . In spite of these difficulties , most historians now estimate that the number of Africans who arrived as slaves from 1502 to the mid - nineteenth century amounted to between ten and twelve ...
Strana 17
... laws were a part of a larger body of laws and moral principles that formed the basis of the Spanish legal system . Known as Las Siete Partidas ( the Seven Parts ) , these laws granted slaves the right to marry , inherit property , and ...
... laws were a part of a larger body of laws and moral principles that formed the basis of the Spanish legal system . Known as Las Siete Partidas ( the Seven Parts ) , these laws granted slaves the right to marry , inherit property , and ...
Strana 18
... laws were much harsher than those existing in Spain . Outnumbered by a servile population of Indians and Africans in the sixteenth century , the colonists tried to impose rigid controls over those whom they exploited and enslaved ...
... laws were much harsher than those existing in Spain . Outnumbered by a servile population of Indians and Africans in the sixteenth century , the colonists tried to impose rigid controls over those whom they exploited and enslaved ...
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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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