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The African Americans : many rivers to cross
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Chronicles five hundred years of African-American history from the origins of slavery on the African continent through Barack Obama's second presidential term, examining contributing political and ...
Chronicles five hundred years of African-American history from the origins of slavery on the African continent through Barack Obama's second presidential term, examining contributing political and cultural events.
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- Creator
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Donald Yacovone
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Carlsbad, California : SmileyBooks, 2013
- 1st edition
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- xiv, 304 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781401935146, 1401935141, 9781401935153, 140193515X
- OCLC
- ocn778425887
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) and index.
- Africans in the Americas, 1500-1540 -- The worlds slavery made, 1526-1763 -- The age of revolutions, 1700-1811 -- Half slave, half free, 1797-1858 -- The war to end slavery, 1859-1865 -- Reconstruction and redemption, 1865-1900 -- The nadir and the renaissance, 1890-1940 -- Rise!: a people emergent, 1940-1968 -- From Black Power to the White House, 1968-2013