American Founders (eBook)

How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World

Christina Proenza-Coles (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
NewSouth Books (Verlag)
978-1-60306-438-5 (ISBN)

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American Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how black people developed and defended New World settlements, undermined slavery, and championed freedom throughout the hemisphere from the sixteenth thorough the twentieth centuries. While conventional history tends to reduce the roles of African Americans to antebellum slavery and the civil rights movement, in reality African residents preceded the English by a century and arrived in the Americas in numbers that far exceeded European migrants up until 1820. Afro-Americans were omnipresent in the founding and advancement of the Americas, and recurrently outnumbered Europeans at many times and places, from colonial Peru to antebellum Virginia. African-descended people contributed to every facet of American history as explorers, conquistadores, settlers, soldiers, sailors, servants, slaves, rebels, leaders, lawyers, litigants, laborers, artisans, artists, activists, translators, teachers, doctors, nurses, inventors, investors, merchants, mathematicians, scientists, scholars, engineers, entrepreneurs, generals, cowboys, pirates, professors, politicians, priests, poets, and presidents. The multitude of events and mixed-race individuals included in the book underscores that black and white Americans share the same history, and in many cases, the same ancestry. American Founders is meant to celebrate this shared heritage and strengthen these bonds.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.3.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 67 grayscale images
• Verlagsort: Athens
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Abolition • African • African Americans • afro • afroamericans • Afro Americans • Alexandre Petion • America • American • American Founders • American History • American Revolution • Americas • Ancestry • Anglo • antislavery • Armistead • Atlantic • Bacon’s Rebellion • Biracial • Birchtown • Black • Black Atlantic • Black History • British • business • Bussa • Cabildo • Capitalism • Caribbean • Christina Proenza-Coles • Citizen • Citizenship • Civic • civil • Civil Rights • Civil War • coartacion • Code Noir • Colonial • Colonialism • Columbus • Conquistadores • Creole • Democracy • democratic • Discovery • Douglass • Dubois • egalitarian • Eighteenth Century • Emancipation • Emancipation Proclamation • Enlightenment • enslaved • Enslavement • Entrepreneur • Equality • equiano • Fighter • Fort Mose • founders • Founding Fathers • freedom • freedom fighter • French Revolution • fugitive • garifuna • garvey • Haiti • haitian • Haitian Revolution • Hemmings • Heritage • History • Human Rights • Hypodescent • Indentured Servants • Independence • independence wars • Jamaica • Jefferson • Jim Crow • Journalism • Justice • La Escalera • langston • Latin • Latino • liberation • Liberia • Liberty • Loyalists • Maceo • manumission • Maroons • Middle Passage • Military • militia • miscegenation • Mixed Race • Moreno • Mulato • mulatto • Murray • NATIONALS • nation building • Native Americans • Navy • negro • new spain • New World • North America • OGE • Palmares • pardo • Patrimony • Patriots • Petion • pirates • plantation • Plantations • Political • Press • Prieto • Race • Rebel • Rebellion • remond • Republic • Republican • Republicanism • resistance • Revolution • revolutionaries • revolutionary • Revolutionary emancipation • Revolutionary War • Runaway • Rustin • sailor • Saint Domingue • Seaman • servants • settlers • Seven Years War • Sierra Leone • Siete Partidas • Simon Bolivar • Slavery • slaves • Sociology • solider • Somerset • South America • south american • Spanish American War • St. Augustine • St. John • Stono • Subject • Suffrage • Sugar • tacky • Thomas Jefferson • Tubman • Twentieth century • Underground Railroad • Union • Universal • war • War of 1812 • Washington • White • white supremacy • womens movement
• ISBN-10: 1-60306-438-9 / 1603064389
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60306-438-5 / 9781603064385