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Author Rogers, J. A. (Joel Augustus), 1880-1966, author.

Title Africa's gift to America : the Afro-American in the making and saving of the United States : with new supplement, Africa and its potentialities / by J.A. Rogers.

Publication Info. [Middleton, Connecticut] : Helga M. Rogers, 1989.
©1961

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Edition Civil War Centennial edition, revised and enlarged.
Description 1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations, map
Physical Medium polychrome
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Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Foreword; Why This Book Was Written; I. THE AFRICAN BACKGROUND; Africa's Gift to the World; The Africans in the Making of America-The First Europeans; Africa as the Economic Foundation of the United States; Were Africans the Only Slaves?; Coming of the Africans. Earlier Ones by States; II. THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN IN THE MAKING OF THE UNITED STATES; Defenders of Freedom and Independence; Revolutionary War; Negroes in the Personal Service of George Washington; Negroes in the War of 1799; Negroes in the War of 1812; Economic Dependence on the Negroes.
III. THE NEGRO IN THE SAVING OF AMERICAThe Civil War; The Confederacy and Its Use of Negroes; The Turn Towards Victory for the Union Army; Deeds of the Negro Soldier and Sailor; IV. SOME IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE SLAVE ERA; Slave Artisans and Other Workers; Africa and the West Today; V. NEW SUPPLEMENT-Africa and Its Potentialities; VI. ADDITIONAL PICTURES.
Summary Classic work of black study indicating a place for African people within Western history.
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Subject American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)
African Americans -- History -- To 1863.
African Americans.
History.
Chronological Term To 1863
Subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American.
Chronological Term To 1865
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Rogers, J.A. (Joel Augustus), 1880-1966. Africa's gift to America : the Afro-American in the making and saving of the United States : with new supplement, Africa and its potentialities. [Middleton, Connecticut] : Helga M. Rogers, 1989, ©1961. Civil War Centennial edition, revised and enlarged. 272 pages 9780960229468
ISBN 9780819575500 (e-book)
081957550X (e-book)
9780960229468