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This text introduces you to both primary sources -- straight from the frontlines of history -- and analytical essays, and is designed to encourage critical thinking about the history and culture of African Americans. The carefully selected readings give you many opportunities to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw your own conclusions.
Contents
Chapter 1: Interpreting African American History
1. The Brownies' Book Encourages Black Children to Know Their History, 1920
2. Carter G. Woodson on His Goals for Black History, 1922
3. Arthur (Arturo) Schomburg Provides a History of Black Achievement, 1925
4. Mary McLeod Bethune on the Contributions and Objectives of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1935
5. John Hope Franklin Explains the Lonely Dilemma of the American Negro Scholar, 1963
6. Vincent Harding on the Differences Between Negro History and Black History, 1971
7. Lucille Clifton on the Nurturing of History, c. 1990
8. James Oliver Horton, "Slavery in American History: An Uncomfortable National Dialogue"
Essays:
1. Becoming a Black Woman's Historian by Darlene Clark Hines
2. Black Scholars and Memory in the Age of Black Studies by Jonathan Scott Holloway (MindTap-only)
Chapter 2: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: Africans and the Middle Passage to the Americas
1. Willem Bosman, a Dutch Trader, Describes the Details of Bargaining for Slaves, 1701
2. William Snelgrave, an English Trader, Describes the Business of Slave Trading and Two Slave Mutinies, 1734
3. Olaudah Equiano, an Ibo boy, Describes the Middle Passage
4. "Tight-Packing" for the Middle Passage, c. 1790s
5. Narratives of Ashy and Sibell, Two Enslaved Women in Barbados
6. Newspaper Advertisement for the Sale of African Slaves in Charleston
Essays
1. "The Number of Women Doeth Much Disparayes the Whole Cargoe": The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and West African Gender Roles" by Jennifer Morgan
2. Chapter 33 of The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade by Robert Harms
Chapter 3: Africans in the Colonial Americas: North America & West Indies
1. John Rolfe Records the Arrival of African Slaves to Virginia, August 1619
2. Virginia Lawmakers Distinguish Slaves from Indentured Servants, 1705
3. Lord Dunmore, a British General, Offers Freedom to Slaves of Colonial Rebels, 1775
4. Elizabeth Freeman, an Enslaved Woman in Massachusetts Sues for Her Freedom, 1781
5. Newspaper Notices for South Carolina Slaves Who Escaped from Their Owners
6. The Haitian Declaration of Independence, 1804
Essays
1. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution by Laurent Dubois
2. Excerpt from Death or Liberty by Douglas Egerton (MindTap-only)
Chapter 4: African Culture in the Americas
1. A Grave Decorated in African Style, 1944
2. George Whitefield, A Religious Revivalist, Encourages Conversion and Education, 1740
3. Musical Instruments Reflect African Cultural History
4. Carved Wooden Figures, Made by African Americans in Georgia
5. Wooden Gravemarkers at Sunbury, Georgia
6. Carved Masks and Wooden Chains, Made by African Americans in Georgia
7. Dormer Slaves on St. Simons Island, Georgia Speak about Their History
8. Ben Sullivan at St. Simons Island
Essay
1. Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South by Michael Gomez
2. Chapter 1 in Black Culture and Black Consciousness by Lawrence Levine
Chapter 5: Slavery and Slaves in the United States
1. Sections from the Constitution of the United States
2. A Notice for the Sale of Slaves in Virginia, February 17, 1812
3. Charles Ball Describes Cotton Plantation Labor
4. James Henry Hammond, a Slaveowner, Instructs His Overseer on the Ideal Disciplinary Regime, c. 1840s
5. Letters Showing Relations Between Slave Husbands and Wives, 1840-1863
6. Harriet Jacobs Describes Her Life in Slavery and Her Escape from North Carolina
7. Choctaw Slaveholder Describes the Health of Her Slaves in Indian Territory
Essays
1. Generations of Captivity by Ira Berlin
2. "'In Pressing Need of Cash'": Gender, Skill and Family Persistence in the Domestic Slave Trade by Daina R. Berry (MindTap-only)
Chapter 6: Slavery and Slaves in the United States
1. Owner's Accounts of Black Sailors on the Ship "Peru"
2. David Walker Calls for Free and Enslaved People to Fight Against Slavery
