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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... South Carolina , Louisiana , and Mississippi . South Carolina's Constitution , like most Reconstruction consti- tutions , made the state a much more positive force in the lives of the peoples . It eradicated every form of slavery ...
... South Carolina , Louisiana , and Mississippi . South Carolina's Constitution , like most Reconstruction consti- tutions , made the state a much more positive force in the lives of the peoples . It eradicated every form of slavery ...
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... South Carolina , Florida , Louisiana , and Missis- sippi were still in the Republican column . In the Big Three ( Missis- sippi , South Carolina , Louisiana ) black voters were so deeply en- trenched that nothing short of a revolution ...
... South Carolina , Florida , Louisiana , and Missis- sippi were still in the Republican column . In the Big Three ( Missis- sippi , South Carolina , Louisiana ) black voters were so deeply en- trenched that nothing short of a revolution ...
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... South Carolina Supreme Court , February 2 . Hiram R. Revels succeeded Jefferson Davis as U.S. senator from Mis ... South Carolina entered West Point , July 1. Smith , the first black student , did not graduate ; he was separated June 26 ...
... South Carolina Supreme Court , February 2 . Hiram R. Revels succeeded Jefferson Davis as U.S. senator from Mis ... South Carolina entered West Point , July 1. Smith , the first black student , did not graduate ; he was separated June 26 ...
Contents
THE AFRICAN PAST | 3 |
BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER | 29 |
THE NEGRO IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | 48 |
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