Upon These Shores
Subtitle: Themes in the African-American Experience, 1600 to the Present
Contributors: William R. Scott (Editor); William G. Shade (Editor)
Publisher: Diane Pub Co
Published: October 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780756760939
Subjects: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Social Science; Sociology
First sentence: AFRICANS BROUGHT TO NORTH AMERICA as slaves were a small minority, probably fewer than 6 percent, of some twelve million men, women, and children shoved below the decks of ships lying at anchor off Africa's Atlantic shores between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries.