num_pages: 248
description: The experiences of Africans in the Old World--the Mediterranean and Islamic worlds, is followed by their movement into the New, where their plight in lands claimed by Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French and English colonial powers is analyzed from enslavement through the Cold War. Particular attention is paid to the everyday lives of the working classes and their cultural development. Their exploits, challenges, and struggles are covered over a broad time frame that links as well as differentiates past and present circumstances.
language: English
title: Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora
titlecomplete: Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora (New Approaches to African History, Series Number 3)
genres: Africa, History, Nonfiction, Historical
ratings_count: 113
series: Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
publisher: Cambridge University Press