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He shared the 2008 Herskovits Prize for his book (co-authored with Linda Heywood) Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585–1660. [6] In 2012, he was awarded the World History Association's annual prize for the best book in world history. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020 [7]
Phyllis Wheatley is the subject of a chapter in Four Hundred Souls. Four Hundred Souls features essays, biographical sketches, short stories, and poems by ninety Black writers. It chronologically spans the 400-year length of African-American history, beginning in 1619 with the arrival of the first Africans in Virginia and ending in 2019. [10]
African-American history started with the forced transportation of Africans to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries. The European colonization of the Americas , and the resulting Atlantic slave trade , encompassed a large-scale transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic.
Two rough estimates by scholars of the numbers African slaves held over twelve centuries in the Muslim world are 11.5 million [87] [page needed] and 14 million, [88] [89] while other estimates indicate a number between 12 and 15 million African slaves prior to the 20th century.
The African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from people from Africa. [48] The term most commonly refers to the descendants of the native West and Central Africans who were enslaved and shipped to the Americas via the Atlantic slave trade between the 16th and 19th centuries, with their largest populations in the United States, Brazil, Colombia and Haiti.
This is a timeline of African-American history, the part of history that deals with African Americans. Europeans arrived in what would become the present day United States of America on August 9, 1526. With them, they brought families from Africa that they had captured and enslaved with intentions of establishing themselves and future ...
The nadir of American race relations was the period in African-American history and the history of the United States from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the early 20th century, when racism in the country, and particularly anti-black racism, was more open and pronounced than it had ever been during any other period in the nation's history.
Nelson begins the story with an emotional introduction that talks about the many triumphs and hardships African Americans have overcome in America. Nelson then writes individual mini chapters about significant events such as slavery , the Revolutionary War , the Civil War , Jim Crow laws, emancipation, the Civil Rights Movement , and the vote ...