![]() While not a fresh history, it provides a solid synthesis of current historical research and a lively writing style that makes it accessible and engaging reading. ![]() "Before the Mayflower" grew out of a series of articles Bennett published in Ebony magazine regarding "the trials and triumphs of a group of Americans whose roots in the American soil are deeper than the roots of the Puritans who arrived on the celebrated Mayflower a year after a 'Dutch man of war' deposited twenty Negroes at Jamestown." Bennett's history is infused with a desire to set the record straight about black contributions to the Americas and about the powerful Africans of antiquity. ![]() The entire historical timeline of African Americans is addressed, from the Colonial period through the civil rights upheavals of the late 1950s to 1961, the time of publication. ![]() The black experience in America-starting from its origins in western Africa up to 1961-is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African American figure. ![]()
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