Before the Mayflower

Lerone Bennett

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. In Before the Mayflower, Lerone Bennett provides a comprehensive overview of the African American experience in the United States. From the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in 1619 to the Civil...

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Before the Mayflower

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Preface

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1. The African Past

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2. Before the Mayflower

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3. The Negro in the American Revolution

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4. Behind the Cotton Curtain

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5. Slave Revolts and Insurrections

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6. The Generation of Crisis

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7. Black, Blue, and Gray: The Negro in the Civil War

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8. Slack Power in Dixie

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9. The Birth of Jim Crow

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10. Miscegenation in America

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11. From Booker T. Washington to Martin Luther King, Jr.

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12. “We Cannot Escape History”: Epilogue

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Landmarks and Milestones

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Bibliography

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