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Bound for America: The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World

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A great read for all ages. I highly recommend this for educators, parents, and students to include this book in their library of African American history.

Explaining the forced migration of Africans to the New World to an eight year old is a difficult thing to do. It was a brutal and shameful practice that nevertheless informs our common history. If you are going to teach your child history, you are bound to teach both the good and ignoble aspects of that story. "Bound for America" tells this story in an age appropriate fashion. The authors are honest about the horrors of the middle passage but are not sensationalistic. The illustrations by Floyd Cooper are well done and help explain the slave experience in an appropriate way. This is a well done book that can help introduce young children to a difficult aspect of our common history. Recommended.

"Bound For America," is one of the most complete and inspiring books that I have read. I am using it at the presence in completing a thesis. It serves as a poignant reminder of the soul
of a people and the resilience of anyone of African descent. It also gives,with historical accuracy, important information as to the contributions of Africans and African Americans to the New World and the entire World.