![]() ![]() ![]() 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.īefore 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."īennett'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 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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