The Negro in the United States

The Negro in the United States
Author: Dorothy Porter Wesley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN:

Identifies some 1,700 works about African Americans. Entries include full bibliographic information as well as Library of Congress call numbers and location in 11 major university libraries. Entries are arranged by subjects such as art, civil rights, folk tales, history, legal status, medicine, music, race relations, and regional studies. First published in 1970 by the Library of Congress.

The Making of the African Diaspora in the Americas, 1441-1900

The Making of the African Diaspora in the Americas, 1441-1900
Author: Vincent Bakpetu Thompson
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1987
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780582642386

"This work examines the core period of the African diaspora in the Americas. The author confronts myths surrounding the ethos of this diaspora which were induced by the mercantilist preoccupations of Western Europe. The entire period is portrayed as a battle between two conflicting and opposite strategies - that of the slavocracy and that of the enslaved Africans - culminating in the conversion of the French colony of St Domingue into the revolutionary state of Haiti. The author suggests that Haiti, because of its position in the midst of hostile slave societies, provided inspiration for the antislavery crusade in both its particularistic and its international aspects. The epilogue provides a glimpse into the author's second book on the divergent perceptions in the early evolution of leadership in the African diaspora in the Americas."--Amazon.com viewed Oct. 26, 2022.