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Braving the New World: From the Arrival of the Enslaved Africans to the American Revolution, 1619-1784 (Milestones in Black American History)

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This Book was really wonderful. I never thought that it would touch my heart as it did. The author wrote this book from his head and didn't leave anything out. All the struggles slaves went through made me upset but I am glad to say, "thank God it wasn't me."

I've always been taught that slavery in America was a very bad thing. Like everybody, I saw Roots on TV and was very moved. So I was pretty surprised when many years later reading this book moved me again. It was very well written. But is was also very disturbing because it tells it like it really was, when in colonial days the colonists were taking black people from Africa and bringing them here by force. There are a lot of interesting and again disturbing statistics in the book about the numbers of slaves involved in the slave trade and so forth. The book doesn't cover the Civil War and all that, though. So you'll have to get that stuff from a different book.