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AFRICANS BROUGHT TO NORTH AMERICA as slaves were a small minority, probably fewer than 6 percent, of some twelve million men, women, and children shoved below the decks of ships lying at anchor off Africa's Atlantic shores between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries. Read the first page
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"Upon These Shores" does have some drawbacks. It lacks an index, a minor but distinct annoyance. There is a good chapter on Black feminism, but coverage of African American women in other chapters is rather perfunctory, though the section on the antebellum gender division of labor is very insightful. The result is that Black womens' issues seem regrettably segregated largely into one chapter. "Race relations" is mostly defined in black-&-white terms, leaving readers less informed on encounters with other ethnic groups. Still, this work does not claim to be fully comprehensive, and what's here is quite good indeed. The course itself covered almost four centuries of history, really too much to do in one semester. I supplemented "Upon These Shores" with the following works: Olaudah Equiano, "Interesting Narrative;" David Walker, "Appeal to the Colored People of the World;" WEB DuBois, "Souls of Black Folk;" Anne Moody, "Comimg of Age in Mississippi," and shorter writings by Diop, Appiah, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs and Nat Turner.
"Upon These Shores" does have some drawbacks. It lacks an index, a minor but distinct annoyance. There is a good chapter on Black feminism, but coverage of African American women in other chapters is rather perfunctory, though the section on the antebellum gender division of labor is very insightful. The result is that womens' issues regrettably seem largely segregated into one chapter. Contributors mostly define "race rellations" in black-and-white terms, leaving readers less informed on encounters with other ethnic groups. Still, this work does not claim to be fully comprehensive, and what's here is quite good indeed.
The course itself covered four centuries of history, really too much to do in one semester. I supplemented "Upon These Shores" with the following works: Olaudah Equiano, "Interesting Narrative;" David Walker, "Appeal to the Colored People;" WEB DuBois, "Souls of Black Folk;" Anne Moody, "Coming of Age in Mississippi," & shorter writings by Diop, Appiah, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs & Nat Turner.
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