African American History: A Very Short Introduction
African American History: A Very Short Introduction What does it mean to be an American? If being American means living in a land of freedom and opportunity, what are we to make of those Americans…
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African American History: A Very Short Introduction
What does it mean to be an American? If being American means living in a land of freedom and opportunity, what are we to make of those Americans who were enslaved and have suffered from the limitations of second-class citizenship throughout their lives? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question.
It begins in Jamestown in 1619, when the first shipment of enslaved Africans arrived in that settlement. African American history illuminates the United States' core paradoxes, inviting profound questions about what it means to be an American, a citizen, and a human being.This book considers how, for centuries, African Americans have fought for what the black feminist intellectual Anna Julia Cooper called the cause of freedom. It narrates the creation of a system of racialized chattel slavery, the eventual dismantling of