African Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins through the American Revolution (The American History Series) [Paperback]

Donald R. Wright (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0882959557 | ISBN-13: 978-0882959559 | Publication Date: March 2000 | Edition: 2 Sub

When the first edition of this revolutionary book appeared in 1990, it seemed that the study of African Americans in slavery was out of temporal and geographical balance. Most of the time that slavery existed in the United States was the colonial period. Yet the focus of the study of American slavery - and indeed of the history of all African Americans before the Civil War - long had been on the institution as it operated in the Cotton South from about 1830 to 1860. African Americans in the Colonial Era served as an early corrective to that imbalance, and a broad wave of new historical literature on African-American colonial history has since emerged. Carefully revised and greatly expanded in light of that new scholarship, the second edition of this highly popular book also includes new topics such as African-Americans in colonial Louisiana and Spanish Florida. Readers will be taken through the totality of the early African-American experience, with material on west African culture; the Atlantic slave trade; the regional differences under which the institution operated; the rise of race-based prejudice; the role of African-Americans in the American Revolution; and the manifestation and evolution of the African-American family and community, the keystone to the formation of African-American culture.

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About the Author

Donald Wiright is a distinguished teaching professor of African and African-American history at SUNY -- Cortland. He has received fellowships for African research from Fulbright-Hays and the National Endowment for the Humanities

Product Details

• Paperback: 250 pages
• Publisher: Harlan Davidson; 2 Sub edition (March 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0882959557
• ISBN-13: 978-0882959559
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,017,329 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Don Wright is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History, Emeritus, at SUNY-Cortland, where he taught African, African-American, and world history for 31 years. He was born in Richmond, Indiana, got degrees from DePauw and Indiana Universities, and moved to New York "because there was a job there." He spent a year (1974-75)collecting oral traditions in The Gambia and Senegal, and has visited Gambia regularly ever since. He was a Scholar in Residence at the Rockefeller Foundation's Study Center in Bellagio, Italy, in 2003 and held the Mark Clark Distinguished Chair of History at The Citadel in 2005-06. He lives with his wife, Doris, in Homer, New York, where he eagerly plants trees, but less-eagerly rakes their leaves. He considers himself the only Cleveland Browns fan in the county.