Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America by Slyvaine Diouf
amazon. Tells the fascinating story of the Clotilda, the last ship to bring African slaves to America, the shameful antecedents to the incident and the unusual and inspiring aftermath. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, the book brings to light a little-known yet vitally important element to this troubled aspect of US history.
Exchanging Our Country Marks: Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South by Michael Gomez
amazon This study establishes tangible links between the African American community and its African origins, tracing the process by which African populations exchanged their distinct ethnic identities for one defined primarily by the conception of race.
Been in the Storm too Long – Leon Litwick
Before the Mayflower: History of Black America by Lerone Bennett
amazon reviews
"It is well known that the european historian has been biased in his presentation of historical facts when it comes to africans.This book is sure to cause anger to those who have accepted the distortions in history as truth.I am constantly amazed at the blacks as well as whites who never question ethnicity when it comes to the portrayal of europeans as ancient africans in the movie "The Ten Commandments". Egypt is Africa! And to accept that a european could go to africa and simply because of skin color have control over its animals as well as its peoples. (TARZAN) These types of distortions have injured those who would realize a humanity that is equal and has brainwashed those who would think that they are superior. I applaud Mr. Bennett in this effort to dispell some of the errors in history."
"For every misstep and offense committed against Africans, the author gloriously lists how there was an African culture/ruler who exceeded the wealth/power/etc of the "bad" European. In essense, the very thing it criticized in others, it heaped praise upon Africans who did the same. Criticizing greed of Americans/Europeans, it celebrates the unfathomable wealth of African rulers..."
Negrophobia – The 1906 Atlanta Riot by Mark Bauerlein
amazon: In 1906, in a bitter gubernatorial contest, Georgia politicians played the race card and white supremacists trumpeted a Negro crime scare. Drawing on new archival materials, Mark Bauerlein traces the origins, development and brutal climax of Atlanta's descent into hatred and violence in that fateful summer. "Negrophobia" is history at its best
Trabelin' on: The Slave Journey to an Afro-Baptist Faith by Mechael Sobel
amazon Africans brought their world views into North America where, eventually, under the tremendous pressures and hardships of chattel slavery, they created a coherent faith that preserved and revitalized crucial African understandings and usages regarding spirit and soul-travels, while melding them with Christian understandings of Jesus and individual salvation.
Reconstruction After the Civil War by John Hope Franklin
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[Recommended: After Appomattox: How the South Won the War by Stetson Kennedy
amazon This work about events of the post-Civil War era shows, by means of drawing upon long-buried testimonials from victors and perpetrators of Ku Klux Klan terror, that the verdict of Appomattox was largely reversed during Reconstruction.
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African American by John Hope Franklin and Alfred Moss
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"From Slavery to Freedom" remains the most revered, respected, honored text on the market.
Mis-education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
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"this book spoke of the misdirection in education and the consequences it can have on a society without deep a sense of purpose, a society that is failing to nurture its own values and build on genuine and progressive thoughts. The greatest strength of this book is that it shows us not only the strength of a proper education, but also the negative imparts of an improper education."
THE "educated Negroes" have the attitude of contempt toward their own people because in their own as well as in their mixed schools Negroes are taught to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton and to despise the African. The vast majority of the Negroes who have put on finishing touches in our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
[Igi-Iwe Award, for a seminal work on the subject]
Thank you "Pooky". BTW, the same mis-education applies to the African school system.
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