Upon these Shores
Subtitle: Themes in the African-American Experience 1600 to the Present
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780415924078
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.