Many Rivers to Cross: Selected Readings on the African American Experience: Vol 1, Preliminary Edition
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Many Rivers to Cross provides a meticulously researched and outstanding foray to learning and understanding the complex formation of African American experiences that begins with pre-colonial Africa and ends with the American Civil War. Unlike other textbooks, Many Rivers to Cross helps us to understand how deep these rivers flow! The book offers readers access to important primary and historically rich documents that correspond to various important moments and periods. Such access allows readers to generate their own interpretations and generate a critical analysis that creates active learners and critical thinkers. The author’s chapter introductions and multiple learning exercises throughout the text help make African American history come alive for both learners and teachers.
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One African Origins
Learning Objectives
Suggested Readings
The Documents
Harkhuf, Four Journeys to the Unknown South [ca. 2300 B.C.]
Pepi-Nakht, Early Empire Building [ca. third century B.C.]
Thuthmosis III, Trade and Tribute [ca. 1436 B.C.]
Piankhi: Kush in Egypt [ca. 750 B.C.]
Herodotus, The Gift of the Nile [ca. 450 B.C.]
Diodorus Siculus, The First of All Men [ca. 50 B.C.]
Strabo, Sailing to India [ca. 25 B.C.]
Saburi Biobaku, Yoruba Origins [1955 A.D.]
Al Bekri, Ghana [ca.1067 A.D.]
Anonymous, Sundiata’s Triumph [late 13th century A.D.]
Ibn Battuta, Travels in Mali [ca. late 14th century A.D.]
Leo Africanus, The Book Trade in Timbuktu [ca. 1550 A.D.]
Significant Themes and Highlights
Lesson Activities
Discussion Suggestions
Further Web-based Resources
Chapter Two The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the Making of the New World
Learning Objectives
Suggested Readings
The Documents
Gomes Azurara, Chronicle of the Growth of the Portuguese Slave Trade [1453]
Gomes Azurara: Description of the Voyage of Antam Gonçalvez and the Capture of African Slaves [1453]
Bartolome de Las Casas, “Condemnation of Spain’s Indian Policy” [1540]
Slave Trade Contract for the Asiento Trade with Spanish America [1667]
Paul E. Lovejoy, “Slave Exports from Africa—The Atlantic Migration,” from Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa
Paul E. Lovejoy, Nationality of Ships Engaged in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1701–1800, from Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery
Thomas Clarkson, The plan of the slave ship Brookes [1808]
The Log of the Arthur [1677–1678]
William Bosman, Guideline for the Slave Trade at Ouidah [1700]
William Bosman, European Merchant Buying Slaves on the Slave Coast [1702]
Alexander Falconbridge, “Description of His Experience as a Physician on Slave Ships” [ca. 1775]
Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African, Written by Himself [1789]
Significant Themes and Highlights
Lesson Activities
Discussion Suggestion
Further Web-based Resources
Chapter Three Slavery’s Making of Empire and the African Diaspora
Learning Objectives
Suggested Readings
The Documents
Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince a West Indian Slave
William Knibb, Facts and Documents Connected with the Late Insurrection in Jamaica [1831]
Anthony and Mary Johnson—A Free African Family
Nathaniel Bacon, Bacon’s Rebellion: The Declaration [1676]
The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of the Laws of Virginia, From the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year [1619]
Transcriptions of Virginia Gazette Runaway Slave Ads
Venture Smith, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture: A Native of Africa but Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America
Runaway Slave Advertisements
Reverend Charles Woodmason’s Sermon
The Stano Rebellion in South Carolina [1739]
Significant Themes and Highlights
Lesson Activities
Discussion Suggestions
Further Web-based Resources
Chapter Four Slavery in the Age of Revolution
Learning Objectives
Suggested Readings
The Documents
John Woolman, Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes [1753]
Phillis Wheatley, To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for North America, & C.
Phillis Wheatley, To His Excellency General Washington
Jupiter Hammon, An Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York
Peter Bestes, et al. Petitions of African Americans to Massachusetts General Court to Abolish Slavery and to the Massachusetts Legislature
Petition of Belinda, an African
William C. Nell, Biographical Sketches of Crispus Attucks and Benjamin Banneker
Article 6 of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Three Clauses on Slavery from the United States Constitution [1787]
Prince Hall, “Thus Doth Ethiopia Stretch Forth Her Hand from Slavery, to Freedom and Equality,” [1797]
Richard Allen, The Founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Church [1816]
Absalom Jones, A Thanksgiving Sermon
Significant Themes and Highlights
Lesson Activities
Discussion Suggestions
Further Web-based Resources
Chapter Five Betwixt Slavery and Freedom in the Antebellum Era
Learning Objectives
Suggested Readings
The Documents
Gabriel’s Conspiracy [1800]
Transcript of Missouri Compromise [1820]
Frederick Law Olmsted, Slave Resistance and Discipline
Alexander Telfair, Instructions to an Overseer in a Cotton Plantation
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
An Act to Prevent all Persons from Teaching Slaves to Read or Write, the Use of Figures Excepted
Northrup, “Solomon Northup Describes a New Orleans Slave Auction,” [1891]
By Hewlett & Bright
David Walker, Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
Nat Turner, The Confessions of Nat Turner
Joseph Wilson, Selections from Joseph Wilson, Sketches of the Higher Classes of Colored Society in Philadelphia
Maria W. Stewart, “Why Sit Ye Here and Die? ” [1832]
William Lloyd Garrison, No Compromise with Slavery
William Wells Brown, “Slavery as It Is” [1847]
William Still, The Underground Railroad
H.H. Garnet, “Let Your Motto Be Resistance! ” [1843]
“Cinque and the Amistad Revolt,” [1841]
Significant Themes and Highlights
Lesson Activities
Discussion Suggestions
Further Web-based Resources
Chapter Six The Road to Disunion and Civil War
Learning Objectives
Suggested Readings
The Documents
Fugitive Slave Act [1850]
Mary Ann Shadd Cary, “A Plea for Emigration, or, Notes of Canada West,” [1852]
Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” [1852]
Sojourner Truth, “A’n’t I a Woman?” [1851]
The Dred Scott Decision [1857]
Frederick Douglass, “Last Meeting Between Frederick Douglass and John Brown”
South Carolina Declaration of the Causes for Secession [Dec. 24, 1860]
Capt. C.B. Wilder, Testimony by the Superintendent of Contrabands at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, Before the American Freedman’s Inquiry Commission
Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation
Colloquy With Colored Ministers
Letter from a Free Black Volunteer to the Christian Recorder [1864]
Jourdon Anderson to His Former Master [1865]
Significant Themes and Highlights
Learning Objectives
Lesson Activities
Discussion Suggestions
Further Web-based Resources