The Birth of America- From Before Columbus to the Revolution
frontier can be established, but a reasonable approximation is at the high- lands of Rwanda and Burundi. Sandwiched between two ...
Dorado, it was real, but another twenty years would pass before a lone Florentine merchant was thought to have reached it, and n ...
YORUBA WOLOF UPPERGUINEA SUSU SENEGAMBIA SÃO TOMÉ MANDINGOS LOANGO IGBO IBIBIO HAUSA FONS EFIK EDO DAHOMEY BERBERS BENIEK BANTU- ...
So the Portuguese plunged farther down the coast, around the great western bulge of Africa, until in 1471 they reached the area ...
impossible for Portuguese gunners to target. Occasionally, they were able even to board and seize the Portuguese (and later, oth ...
Shipment of slaves to the New World would become massive only in the eighteenth century, but meanwhile the lure of gold was irre ...
the mouth of the great Zaire (or Congo) River. There Cão made contact with people he realized must come from a kingdom even gran ...
flow of slaves but also affected how enslaved peoples were integrated into the lands of their destinations. First consider race. ...
temporary account we have by an African, Olaudah Equiano remembered that when, as a boy about 1750, he was kidnapped and carried ...
village-states were apt to be gobbled up by more powerful neighbors. Thus from at least the thirteenth century, Africa produced ...
shows the depth of the cultural network of Africa. Since the ancient soci- eties were almost all illiterate, we cannot trace it ...
Influences did not, of course, come only from the East. As I have men- tioned, the king and aristocracy of the Kongo kingdom not ...
slave, known as Onesimus, inspired Mather, when the next smallpox epi- demic broke out in Boston in 1721, to begin the experimen ...
Warfare, of course, existed long before the arrival of the Portuguese, but it increased in scale and frequency under the impact ...
European or colonial American governments sought to locate the offenders and restore the lost people or property. Two famous cas ...
from rights over dependents.... By far the most important form of depen- dent labor was slavery. It was common for travelers to ...
As soon as possible, the captives were sold to the captains of waiting slave ships, as Robert Harms learned from the log of the ...
98 THE BIRTH OF AMERICA the forward deck on which the males, fettered in pairs, were occasionally allowed to exercise; and the r ...
PART II The Establishment of British America ...
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