Edition |
Civil War Centennial edition, revised and enlarged. |
Description |
1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations, map |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
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. |
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) |
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African Americans -- History -- To 1863.
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African Americans. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
To 1863 |
Subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American.
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Chronological Term |
To 1865 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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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) |
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081957550X (e-book) |
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9780960229468 |
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