Crossing the Danger Water
Subtitle: Three Hundred Years of African-American Writing
Publisher: Anchor
Published: September 1, 1993
Language: eng
Number of pages: 800
ISBN-13: 9780385422437
First sentence: THESE SPANISH SIGHTINGS OF AFRICANS IN THE NEW WORLD and the later discovery by anthropologists of distinctive black settlements along the American seaboard (outside the mainstream of the post-Columbian slave complex) constitute only one strand of the evidence of pre-Columbian contact between Africa and America.