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To make our world anew. Volume one, A history of African Americans to 1880 / edited by Robin D.G. Kelley and Earl Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--History.
- African Americans.
- United States--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface to Volume One; CHAPTER 1 The First Passage: 1502-1619; CHAPTER 2 Strange New Land: 1619-1776; CHAPTER 3 Revolutionary Citizens: 1776-1804; CHAPTER 4 Let My People Go: 1804-1860; CHAPTER 5 Breaking the Chains: 1860-1880; Chronology; Further Reading; Picture Credits; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-983982-4
- 1-280-84543-0
- 9786610845439
- 0-19-804006-7
- OCLC:
- 437108578
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