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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811399803321

Titolo

To make our world anew . Volume one A history of African Americans to 1880 / / edited by Robin D.G. Kelley and Earl Lewis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-19-983982-4

1-280-84543-0

9786610845439

0-19-804006-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KelleyRobin D. G

LewisEarl

Disciplina

973.0496073

Soggetti

African Americans - History

United States History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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