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Crosscurrents in the Black Atlantic, 1770-1965 A Brief History with Documents

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ISBN-10: 0312442440

ISBN-13: 9780312442446

Edition: 2008

Authors: David Northrup

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Africans' influence in the Atlantic world before 1960 was not confined to their roles as victims in the one-way forced migration of the Atlantic slave trade and their labor on New World plantations. From the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, black people in the divided communities of the four Atlantic continents struggled to overcome geographical and cultural separations and build a broad coalition against discrimination and exploitation. David Northrup offers a collection of primary sources that presents the social, political, and intellectual interactions of black people around the Atlantic in their quests for advancement, liberation, and emancipation. His thoughtful…    
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List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 7/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Foreword
Preface
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Reconnecting Africa and the African Diaspora
Seeking New Homes in Europe and Africa, 1773-1859
Missions to Redeem Africa, 1853-1891
The Quest for Unity, Liberation, and Advancement, 1897-1958
Black Cultural Unity and Global Agendas, 1904-1966
Transatlantic Voyagers, 1914-1963
Concluding Observations
The Documents
Seeking New Homes in Europe and Africa, 1773-1859
On Being Brought from Africa to America, 1773
Going Back to Africa as a Missionary or Settler, 1779 and 1786
An Account of the First Black Emigration from Britain to Sierra Leone, 1787
A Black Loyalist Petitions for a Better Place of Settlement, 1790
Visits to the Russian Court in St. Petersburg and to Jamaica, 1824 and 1840
A Black Man in England Reflects on Racist America, 1846
Annual Report, 1850
Changing Views of the Wisdom of African American Emigration, 1859
Missions to Redeem Africa, 1853-1891
Hope for Africa, 1853
An Appeal for Black Emigration to Liberia, 1887
An African American Bishop's Views of the Evangelization of Africa, 1891
An African Bishop Directs Christian Evangelization in Africa, 1869
A Report on the Congo Free State to President Benjamin Harrison, 1890
The Quest for Unity, Liberation, and Advancement, 1897-1958
A Plan for African and African American Cooperation, 1897
An African Appeal for African American Help,1901
A Critical Assessment of Booker T. Washington, 1901
An African Lawyer Urges Black South Africans to Unite, 1911
Speech in Philadelphia, 1919
Declaration of the Rights of the Negro People of the World, 1920
The West Indian Contribution to Pan-Africanism, 1921-1959
Pan-Africanism and African Nationalism, 1937-1958
Black Cultural Unity and Global Agendas, 1904-1966
An Appeal to the League of Nations, 1936
Peace and a Better Life for All Men, 1950
An Assessment of African and African American Music, 1904
An African American Appreciation of African Music, 1935
What Is Africa to Me?, 1940 and 1923
French West Indian Perspectives on Black Cultural Connections, 1953