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To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans
Edited by Robin D.G. Kelley, Edited by Earl Lewis
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This volume offers an up-to-date account available of African-American history, ranging from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, to today's black film-makers and politicians. The book presents a panoramic view of African-American life, with first-person accounts and short character sketches that invite readers to relive history as African-Americans experienced it. We begin in Africa, with the growth of the slave trade, and follow the forced migration of what is estimated to be between ten and 20 million people, witnessing the terrible human cost of slavery in the colonies of England and Spain. We read of the Haitian Revolution, which ended victoriously in 1804 with the birth of the first independent black nation in the New World, and of slave rebellions and resistance in the United States in the years leading up to the Civil War. There are accounts of the Civil War and Reconstruction years, the backlash of notorious ""Jim Crow"" laws and mob lynchings, and the founding of key black educational institutions. The contributors also trace the migration of blacks to the major cities, the birth of the Harlem Renaissance, the hardships of the Great Depression and the ser
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Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc
Published date | 4 Jan 2001
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 688
Dimensions | 170 x 242 x 37mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 1179g
ISBN | 978-0-1951-3945-7
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BISAC | history / united states / general
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