Born in Blackness Africa, Africans, and the making of the modern world, 1471 to the Second World War
"Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal repor...
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New York, N.Y. :
Liveright Publishing Corporation,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- THE "DISCOVERY" OF AFRICA
- The Crackling Surface
- Black King, Golden Scepter
- Rethinking Exploration
- Enter the Aviz
- Islands in the Offing
- The African Main
- THE ESSENTIAL PIVOT
- The Mine
- Asia Suspended
- Wealth in People Versus Wealth in Things
- Circuits Old and New
- Unto the End of the World
- Pathways of Resistance
- Becoming Creole
- THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICANS
- For a Few Acres of Snow
- Fighting for Africans
- Endless Death in Lands with No End
- The Perpetual Oven
- The Cockpit of Europe
- Dung for Every Hole
- Capitalism's Big Jolt
- Masters of Slaves, Masters of the Sea
- THE WAGES OF THE PYTHON GOD
- Shatter Zones
- Negros Seguros
- The Slave Rush
- Bargains Sharp and Sinful
- The Spread of the West African Slave Trade
- The Wages of Resistance
- Seized by the Spirit
- Dark Hearts
- War for the Black Atlantic
- A People Scattered, A Continent Drained
- THE BLACK ATLANTIC AND A WORLD MADE NEW
- The Scent of Freedom
- The Black Jacobins
- Gilded Negroes
- Blues and the American Truth
- The Gifts of Black Folk
- How the West Was Made and "Won"
- Toward a New Vision of Our Origins.
