Born in Blackness
Subtitle: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Liveright
Published: 2021-10-12
Place of publication: New York City, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9781631495823
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Africa, history
First sentence: By 1995, visiting DJENNE’, a small and seemingly time-forgotten city in the southwest of Mali, had nearly become a pilgrimage for me.
Table of contents: title: THE "DISCOVERY" OF AFRICA; title: The Crackling Surface; title: Black King, Golden Scepter; title: Rethinking Exploration; title: Enter the Aviz; title: Islands in the Offing; title: The African Main; title: THE ESSENTIAL PIVOT; title: The Mine; title: Asia Suspended; title: Wealth in People Versus Wealth in Things; title: Circuits Old and New; title: Unto the End of the World; title: Pathways of Resistance; title: Becoming Creole; title: THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICANS; title: For a Few Acres of Snow; title: Fighting for Africans; title: Endless Death in Lands with No End; title: The Perpetual Oven; title: The Cockpit of Europe; title: Dung for Every Hole; title: Capitalism's Big Jolt; title: Masters of Slave, Masters of the Sea; title: THE WAGES OF THE PYTHON GOD; title: Shatter Zones; title: Negros Seguros; title: The Slave Rush; title: Bargains Sharp and Sinful; title: The Spread of the West African Slave Trade; title: The Wages of Resistance; title: Seized by the Spirit; title: Dark Hearts; title: War for the Black Atlantic; title: A People Scattered, A Continent Drained; title: THE BLACK ATLANTIC AND A WORLD MADE NEW; title: The Scent of Freedom; title: The Black Jacobins; title: Gilded Negroes; title: Blues and the American Truth; title: The Gifts of Black Folk; title: How the West Was Made and "Won"; title: Toward a New Vision of Our Origins