From Timbuktu to Katrina Readings in African-American History

Name: From Timbuktu to Katrina Readings in African-American History
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ISBN: 9780495092773

ISBN-10: 0495092770

ISBN-13: 9780495092773

Edition: 2008

Authors: Quintard Taylor

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SOURCES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY, a new primary and secondary source reader, includes many selections that will be familiar to you, such as THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION or DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING'S LETTER FROM A BIRMINGHAM JAIL. However other documents such as Lucy Parson's 1886 speech, "I AM AN ANARCHIST" or AFRICAN AMERICANS AND ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY: A MANIFESTO are included precisely because the rarely gain exposure beyond the gaze of a handful of experts in a particular subfield of African American history. This two-volume reader begins with medieval readings from the continent of Africa up to readings related to the events of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to encompass the enormous…

Book details

List price: $65.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 6/13/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English




African Origins


The "Golden Age" Of African History


Ibn Battuta Describes The Sultan Of Mali, Ca 1354 Leo


Africanus Describes Timbucktu, Ca 1515 John Barbot


On The Government Of Benin 1682


Table: The Slave Trade over Four Centuries


Slavery In Global Perspective


The Slave Trade: A Slaver's Account


The Enslavement Of Venture Smith


Olaudah Equiano Describes The Middle Passage


The Middle Passage: A Slave Mutiny 1704


Omar Ibn Seid: From Senegal To North Carolina


A Defense Of The African Slave