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A riveting narrative history of America, from the 1607 landing in Jamestown to the brink of the Civil War, Africans in America tells the shared history of Africans and Europeans as seen through the lens of slavery. It is told from the point of view of the Africans who arrived in shackles and endured the terrible dichotomy of this new land founded on the ideal of liberty but dedicated to the perpetuation of slavery. Meticulously researched, this book weaves together the experiences of the colonists, slaves, free and fugitive blacks, and abolitionists to present an utterly original document, a startling and moving drama of the effects of slavery and racism on our conflicted national identity. The result transcends history as we were taught it and transforms the way we see our past.
- Sales Rank: #327520 in Books
- Published on: 1999-11-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.30" w x 6.00" l, 1.65 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 512 pages
Amazon.com Review
This extraordinary book--the accompanying volume to the PBS series--looks at the history of slavery in the United States with an honesty that reveals both horror and heroism in the common humanity of all Americans. Uncovering the indigenous history of African slavery and the involvement of Arab and European nations, it then traces the journey of enslaved Africans across the "Middle Passage" of the Atlantic to the Caribbean and America. Charles Johnson's spellbinding fictional narratives beautifully evoke the feeling of times and places, such as the Haitian revolution or the plantation slave society. In "The Transmission," two captives in the bottom of a slave ship try to preserve their heritage. "Oboto quietly sang to his brother--in a language their captors could not understand--how their people long ago had navigated the New World ... on and on like a tapestry, Oboto unfurled their past, rituals, and laws in songs and riddles..."
Poet/journalist Patricia Smith's historical anecdotes and references to legendary African American heroes (including Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Tubman, and Frederick Douglass), juxtaposed with rare documents, letters, slave advertisements, slave-ship cargo diagrams, and paintings, provide evidence of the African American fight for freedom, from the black soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War to the Underground Railroad to the return to combat in the Civil War. When emancipation finally came, Smith writes, "the newly liberated slaves sang for themselves, for their new country, and for the thousands upon thousands of Africans ripped from the clutches of home." --Eugene Holley Jr.
From Publishers Weekly
Designed to complement a PBS series of the same name, this is much more than a companion book. A monumental research effort wed with fine writing has produced a work that can stand on its own. Studded with a dozen short stories by Johnson, the NBA-winning author of Middle Passage, and filled with arresting period illustrations, it is ultimately shaped by journalist/poet Smith's (Big Towns, Big Talk) beautiful narrative. There is plenty to praise, in particular the drawing together of several slave narratives and other accounts to flesh out the true picture of slave lives in this country. The ugly reality of the "triangle trade" and the initial confusion of newly enslaved Africans are fully realized, while the apparent hypocrisy and contradictory reasoning of the Founding Fathers is given a human face. The impact of the Caribbean experience, America's western expansion, and black abolitionism are also illuminated. Perhaps the most riveting moments begin early in the journey, at the point when slavery becomes synonymous with blackness in colonial America. Heartbreaking setbacks include the forced migration of slave communities deeper and deeper south, as well as the kidnapping and forced enslavement of free children from the streets of Philadelphia. The struggle of whites against slavery and the divisions within the abolitionist movement are discussed frankly, another in a list of refreshing surprises. While American society can be seen as the logical end of this dreadful institution, the story of all those who struggled to end it is indeed liberating. Although lavishly illustrated, this is not a coffee-table book. It deserves a curious and enlightened reader.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Grade 10 UpRead with tender emotion and evoking tremendous feelings of sympathy, Africans in America presents the story of slavery in America from the perspective of those who lived it. The original book was written by Charles Johnson and Patricia Smith (Harcourt, 1998) as a companion to the PBS TV series. The writing is clear, but often strikingly beautiful. The six hours of tape, narrated by Iona Morris, covers the significant events in African American history from the horrible slave revolt in Haiti to the development of the cotton gin to independent Black churches to Nat Turner, Amistead and Harpers Ferry. Significant historical persons are mentioned. But most poignant are the diaries, letter excerpts, historical documents and stories of everyday people. For example, Harriet lived for seven years in a crawl space in order to avoid her abusive master, but she emerged grateful for freedom. These riveting tapes are a necessary addition to existing material about slavery for students in high school and above. The tapes and/or book should be available in school libraries for use in history classes, and in public libraries for research projects.Alice OGrady, Jackson High School, Mill Creek, WA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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22 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
THIS IS A "MUST" READING FOR ALL AFRICANS
By owerri@msn.com
I am a Nigerian born American, and have lived in the US for 40-years. This is the first book I have ever read from the SLAVES point of view. I have been married for 30-years to an American born African American, and this book, for the first time, explains to me why my 91-year old mother-in-law who lives with us could not watch the movie "Color Purple" or the PBS broadcast of Africans in America. I can now associate the Black American in the street as someone from my village in Nigeria. I am humbled by the humiliation and suffering which was perpetrated on my people for no other reason than the color of their skin. This book must be read by all recent African immigrtants to the US, all heads of African Governments, as well as all editors of African news organizations, in the hope that the respective African country shall adopt this book as a required reading in African schools. I make this recommendation because any history of slavery, whatsoever, as taught in the African schools today, was written in the last 100-years, with the point of view of the SLAVEMASTER. The respective modern day African country has no record of Slavery in America from 1450 to 1900. Worse yet, all the conditions that lead to tribal conflict and genocide exist today in many parts of Africa. Those who have no sense of history will repeat the mistakes of yester-years. This should be the beginning of a new dialogue among Africans and African Americans.
19 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
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I have started reading Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, and the WGBH Series Research Team, "African in American: America's Journey through Slavery" (New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1998), and so far I am shocked and disappointed. While the book has a lot of good information, it contains inconsistencies, fictional material not marked a such. The only citation thus far has been to quotes from primary sources; all other material, including a long quote from historian David Northrup, whom I have used in my research on slavery, is not cited. Perhaps this is because Johnson and Smith are fictional writers and journalist, not historians. The result is a well-written, engaging book that omits important facts, is inconsistent, and glosses over debated subjects with no evidence or citation.
For example, the authors state at one point that 20 million Africans were captured, then states the more recent and widely accepted figure of 10 to 12 million, and then states 20 million again. They also state that the Portuguese dominated the trade at one point, then the Spainish without explaining the change. What really got my goat was that first thing, they try to dismiss Africans enslaving Africans as benign, using broad statements, without any critical examiniation, no examples to back it up, and not a single citation! They admit that Whites did not originally get Africans slaves out of racism, and hint at some similarities between White and Black experiences in how they came to the Americas, but they needed to explore that more thoroughly and directly. More effort could have been put into the facts and the analysis, and less into creative writing and style.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
A must for everyone who says they are an American
By C. J. Hunter
I just finished reading this book and I was amazed, angered, heart-broken, and thrilled through it all. I was amazed how one group of people managed to survived all the indignities heaped upon them by their "masters" and still managed to know that this peculiar condition (slavery) was wrong. I was angered how one group of people misused the bible & God's word, proposed baseless scientific theories, and rationalized their way to exploit the millions of Africans and later black American born slaves to enrich their lives. I was heart-broken to read of all the injustices done to these slaves, the break-up of families, the rapes, the lynching, and the treatment of them as less than animals. I was thrilled that throughout this book, there arose individuals, from both sides of the racial divide that knew slavery was wrong to their very core. How they strove in their own ways, be it through violence, be it through the pulpit or be it through risking their own lives in trying to rid this fledging nation from such an amoral situation. This book opened my eyes to how the founding fathers failed to grasp how to handle this slave issue and how it is the basis for the social ills we face in this day and age. This is a must read for all Americans to see how through our fight for "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" we trampled upon those same ideas for another group of people whose only difference was the color of their skin. This book should make you pause for a moment to ponder the question, what if things were differently. If the vile treatment done to those individual so long was done humanely or never done at all, how much different would our nation be today. Or, if this peculiar condition was allowed to exist through the years even to this day, would our nation be held in the high esteem it is today? This book has reinforced me to view each person I meet on their own individual merits and not judge them by their color, as was done to my ancestors so long ago.
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