The African Diaspora Experience

THE AFRICAN DIASPORA EXPERIENCE
Contents
Preface to Second Edition
Introduction to the African Diaspora Experience
MAPS OF AFRICAN DIASPORA
Africa During the Thirteenth to Seventeenth Centuries
Africa, 1914
The Main Corridors of the African Slave Trade
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Mexico and the Caribbean Area
African American Population in the United States
The Modern States of Africa
SECTION ONE: UNDERSTANDING THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
Introduction
The Dynamics of the Global African Diaspora (Joseph E. Harris)
The Emergence of Mankind in Africa (David W. Phillipson)
The Dialectic Between Diasporas and Homelands (Elliott P. Skinner)
SECTION TWO: ANCIENT AFRICAN CIVILIZATION
Introduction
Origin of the Ancient Egyptians (Cheikh Anta Diop)
The Land, Early Nubian Cultures and Egypt (John H. Taylor)
The Great Empires of Medieval Sudan (Robert W. July)
SECTION THREE: AFRICANS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND EUROPE
Introduction
Toward an Understanding of the Ancient View of Blacks (Frank M. Snowden, Jr.)
European Dimensions of the African Diaspora (Allison Blakely)
Black Slaves in the Mediterranean World: Introduction to a Neglected Aspect of the African Diaspora (John O. Hunwick)
The Black Slaves of Turkish Arabia During the 19th Century (Albertine Jwaideh and James W. Cox)
SECTION FOUR: AFRICAN PRESENCE IN ASIA
Introduction
The 19th Century Islamic Slave Trade from East Africa (Swahili and Red Seas Coasts): A Tentative Census (Ralph A. Austen)
The African Presence in Asia (Joseph E. Harris)
The Importation of Negro Slaves to China under the T'ang Dynasty (A.D. 618-907) (Chang Hsing-lang)
A Brief Analysis of the Role and Status of the Negro in the Hawaiian Community (Lloyd L. Lee)
SECTION FIVE: THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE
Introduction
The Ethiopian Slave Trade and Its Relation to the Islamic World (Mordechai Abir)
The Origin of Negro Slavery (Eric E. Williams)
The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African (Olaudah Equiano)
Measuring the Immeasurable: The Atlantic Slave Trade (David P. Henige)
SECTION SIX: AFRICAN SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAS
Introduction
Social Structure of Caribbean Slave Plantation Society (Franklin W. Knight)
The Charter of Freedom (Katia M. de Queiros Mattoso)
The Slave Family (John W. Blassingame)
Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Peru (Peter Blanchard)
The Black Legions of Buenos Aires, Argentina (George Reid Andrews)
SECTION SEVEN: THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
Introduction
African Feminism: A Theoretical Approach to History of Women in the African Diaspora (Rosalyn Terborg-Penn)
The Economic Role of Slave Women (Barbara A. Bush)
Slave Women in the Eighteenth-Century Charleston Marketplace (Robert Olwell)
Perceptions of Slave Women in Nineteenth-Century Brazil (Robert W. Slenes)
SECTION EIGHT: SLAVE RESISTANCE AND ABOLITION
Introduction
The Haitian Revolution (David P. Geggus)
Akan Slave Rebellions in the British Caribbean (Monica E. Schuler)
The Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade (Michael L. Conniff and Thomas J. Davis)
Gradual Abolition and the Dynamics of Slave Emancipation in Cuba, 1868-1886 (Rebecca J. Scott)
SECTION NINE: THE RISE OF BLACK NATIONALISM AND PAN-AFRICANISM
Introduction
Du Bois and the Pan-African Congress Movement (Immanuel Geiss)
Back to Africa, 1958-1962 (Colin Legum)
Marcus Garvey, the Caribbean and the Struggle for Black Jamaican Nationhood (Tony Martin)
from The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Malcolm X)
SECTION TEN: REACHING BACK—SOME AFRICAN DIASPORA CHALLENGES
Introduction
Three Centuries Removed: Black Americans and Their African Connections (Edwin Dorn and Walter Carrington)
Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America (Randall Robinson)
Another Exodus: The Hebrew Israelites from Chicago to Dimona (Ethan Michaeli)
American in Africa: A Black Journalist's Story (Keith B. Richburg)
APPENDIX Further Readings