TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rogers,J.A.
TI  - Africa's gift to America: the Afro-American in the making and saving of the United States : with new supplement, Africa and its potentialities 
SN  - 9780819575500
AV  - E185 .R644 1989eb
U1  - 973.0496073 23
PY  - 1989///
CY  - [Middleton, Connecticut]
PB  - Helga M. Rogers
KW  - African Americans
KW  - History
KW  - To 1863
KW  - Noirs américains
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Jusqu'à 1863
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - United States
KW  - State & Local
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Military participation
KW  - African American
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Participation, African American
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Foreword; Why This Book Was Written; I. THE AFRICAN BACKGROUND; Africa's Gift to the World; The Africans in the Making of America-The First Europeans; Africa as the Economic Foundation of the United States; Were Africans the Only Slaves?; Coming of the Africans. Earlier Ones by States; II. THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN IN THE MAKING OF THE UNITED STATES; Defenders of Freedom and Independence; Revolutionary War; Negroes in the Personal Service of George Washington; Negroes in the War of 1799; Negroes in the War of 1812; Economic Dependence on the Negroes; III. THE NEGRO IN THE SAVING OF AMERICAThe Civil War; The Confederacy and Its Use of Negroes; The Turn Towards Victory for the Union Army; Deeds of the Negro Soldier and Sailor; IV. SOME IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE SLAVE ERA; Slave Artisans and Other Workers; Africa and the West Today; V. NEW SUPPLEMENT-Africa and Its Potentialities; VI. ADDITIONAL PICTURES
N2  - Classic work of black study indicating a place for African people within Western history
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ER  -