Before the Mayflower; a History of Black AmericaTraces black history from its origins in the great empires of western Africa, the transatlantic journey to slavery, through Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the civil rights upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. |
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... Nat Turner planning revolt at secret meeting Capture of Nat Turner Map of Nat Turner uprising William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Henry " Box " Brown Harriet Tubman The burning of Pennsylvania Hall Sojourner Truth 61 61 61 76 76 ...
... Nat Turner planning revolt at secret meeting Capture of Nat Turner Map of Nat Turner uprising William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Henry " Box " Brown Harriet Tubman The burning of Pennsylvania Hall Sojourner Truth 61 61 61 76 76 ...
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... Nat Turner plotted and executed . " No ante - bellum Southerner , " Historian Kenneth Stampp writes , " could ever forget Nat Turner . The career of this man made an impact upon the people of his section as great as that of John C ...
... Nat Turner plotted and executed . " No ante - bellum Southerner , " Historian Kenneth Stampp writes , " could ever forget Nat Turner . The career of this man made an impact upon the people of his section as great as that of John C ...
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... Nat was finally captured , guns were fired all over South- ampton County . The women , thinking Nat had assembled another force , fled to the swamps , misinterpreting the cry , " Nat is caught ! " for " Nat is coming ! " Nat Turner was ...
... Nat was finally captured , guns were fired all over South- ampton County . The women , thinking Nat had assembled another force , fled to the swamps , misinterpreting the cry , " Nat is caught ! " for " Nat is coming ! " Nat Turner was ...
Contents
THE AFRICAN PAST | 3 |
BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER | 29 |
THE NEGRO IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | 48 |
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