In truth, Africans began coming to the Americas thousands of years before Columbus; and the evidence of their presence, though systematically ignored by mainstream scholars, is …

Africans came to the New World in the earliest days of the Age of Exploration. In the early 1500s, Africans trekked across the many lands in North, Central, and South America that were …

In the 360 years between 1500 and the end of the slave trade in the 1860s, at least 12 million Africans were forcibly taken to the Americas - then known as the "New World" to European...

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 …

Oct 14, 2009 · After the Civil War, the racist legacy of slavery persisted, spurring movements of resistance. Learn important dates and facts about the African American experience.

How did African Americans construct identity in antebellum America? How did enslaved and free blacks differ in their exercise of power and self-determination? How did African Americans …

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. The Black Atlantic (1500-1800) Preview: Episode 1 | 30s. The first Africans in America and the beginning of plantation slavery in the South.

This educational resource provides a comprehensive examination of the African American experience during the early centuries of America, encompassing the complex and evolving …

“The Black Atlantic” explores the global experiences that created the African-American people. The episode portrays the earliest Africans, slave and free, who arrived on these shores.

Between 1492 and 1808, Africans represented the largest stream of arrivals in the Americas, outnumbering Europeans by a ratio of more than 3:1. This course surveys the history of the …