What forces transformed Africans into African Americans? How did they sustain themselves during centuries of captivity and oppression? In what way did their presence shape their attitudes - and fortunes - of White America? How did Black people become a nation within a nation? And what are the prospects for that nation in the 1990s? These are among the questions that Lerone Bennett Jr addresses in this companion volume to his "Before the Mayflower". It tells its story from a developmental perspective. Its first section, "Foundations", encompasses Black slaves and White indentured servants, the Black founding fathers and the relationship between African-Americans and Indians. In the second section, "Directions", Bennett traces the growth of Black labour and Black capital and their convergence into a separate economy.
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IN August, when the shadows are long on the land and even the air oppresses, the furies of fate hang in the balance in Black America. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
first black immigrants, white founding fathers, black founding fathers, white labor leaders, white bondage, black economic development, more dat, black insurance companies, black business community, white servitude, black artisans, black businessmen, black women workers, black merchants, black pioneers, black workers, black servitude, white servants, white capital, black unemployment rate, black entrepreneurs, servant trade, white indentured servants Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, South Carolina, United States, South Africa, Frederick Douglass, North Carolina, New England, New Orleans, Richard Allen, National Labor Union, West Indies, Jim Crow, North America, Prince Hall, American Revolution, Free African Society, World War, Anthony Johnson, Los Angeles, Paul Cuffee, Radical Republican, Slave Row, American Colonization Society, David Walker, Fortress Monroe New!
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IN August, when the shadows are long on the land and even the air oppresses, the furies of fate hang in the balance in Black America. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
first black immigrants, white founding fathers, black founding fathers, white labor leaders, white bondage, black economic development, more dat, black insurance companies, black business community, white servitude, black artisans, black businessmen, black women workers, black merchants, black pioneers, black workers, black servitude, white servants, white capital, black unemployment rate, black entrepreneurs, servant trade, white indentured servants Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, South Carolina, United States, South Africa, Frederick Douglass, North Carolina, New England, New Orleans, Richard Allen, National Labor Union, West Indies, Jim Crow, North America, Prince Hall, American Revolution, Free African Society, World War, Anthony Johnson, Los Angeles, Paul Cuffee, Radical Republican, Slave Row, American Colonization Society, David Walker, Fortress Monroe New!
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- Frederick Douglass by Booker T. Washington on 4 pages
- Life Insurance by Kenneth Jr. Black on 4 pages
- The Negro in Business by Booker T. Washington on page 317, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Shaping of Black America by Lerone Bennett in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- South Carolina (Gousha Fastmap) by Don Wood on page 182, and Back Matter
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- Blacks in Colonial America by Oscar Reiss on 6 pages
- No Partiality : The Idolatry of Race and the New Humanity by Douglas R. Sharp on 4 pages
- Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation: A Three-Dimensional Interactive Book with Photographs and Documents from the Black Holocaust Exhibit by Velma Maia Thomas in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- African American Teachers by Clinton Cox in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Protest and Progress: New York's First Black Episcopal Church Fights Racism (Studies in African American History and Culture) by John Hewitt on page 97, and page 114
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