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Afro-Americans
harvard encyclopedia of american ethnic groups • Cambridge, Mass. • Published In 1980 • Pages: 5-23
By: Holt, Thomas C..
Abstract
This source provides an excellent summary of Afro-American culture and society in the United States from the earliest settlement of Africans in North America in 1619, when a Dutch ship sold 20 Blacks as slaves to the English colonists in Jamestown, to about 1980. Primary topics of discussion in this work deal with the Black African heritage, the period of slavery, the emancipation and post-emancipation periods (including specific information on the development of the Black church, internal migrations, and the Afro-American literary renaissance), the second reconstruction (covering various aspects of race relations, discrimination, the development of Black nationalism and the civil rights movement), and finally, a section dealing with Black achievement in the last half of the 20th century.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2019
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Historian
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1986
- Field Date
- no date
- Notes
- Thomas C. Holt
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- 80017756
- LCSH
- African Americans