In this volume, the author explores, via portraits, documents, maps and texts, the lives of 50 sub-Saharan, non-peasant Muslim Africans caught in the American slave trade between 1730 and 1860.
In this volume, the author explores, via portraits, documents, maps and texts, the lives of 50 sub-Saharan, non-peasant Muslim Africans caught in the ...
Allan D. Austin explores via portraits, documents, maps and texts, the lives of 50 sub-Saharan non-peasant Muslim Africans caught in the American slave trade between 1730 and 1860.
Allan D. Austin explores via portraits, documents, maps and texts, the lives of 50 sub-Saharan non-peasant Muslim Africans caught in the American slav...
The twelve essays presented here are a representative sample of the pioneering work Sydney Kaplan has produced in the fields of American and black studies. Selected from over fifty published pieces, the essays reflect Kaplan's lifelong passion to demonstrate the centrality of the African-American experience to our national experience, to show that an understanding of black history is indispensable to an understanding of American history. He takes particular pride in his works that that point out the presence and significance of African Americans who too often are rendered invisible or out...
The twelve essays presented here are a representative sample of the pioneering work Sydney Kaplan has produced in the fields of American and black ...