Benjamin Griffith Brawley

A Social History of the American Negro Benjamin Griffith Brawley

A highly readable and tremendously informative foundational overview of the grand and terrible story of Africans in the New World, this work explores: .the role of the Negro in the Spanish exploration of America .the development of the slave trade .the difficult social positions of the Indian, the mulatto, and the free Negro .early slave insurrections .the Negro in the American Revolution .first steps toward abolition . Negroes in the West .the impact of Nat Turner and the Amistad case . Sojourner Truth and the influence of the women's suffrage movement .the Civil War and Emancipation .the problems of enfranchisement . Mob violence and election troubles at the turn of the 20th century . Negro migration around America .the place of the Negro in American life .and much more.