American Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key
protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how
black people developed and defended New World settlements,
undermined slavery, and championed freedom throughout the
hemisphere from the sixteenth thorough the twentieth centuries.
While conventional history tends to reduce the roles of African
Americans to antebellum slavery and the civil rights movement, in
reality African residents preceded the English by a century and
arrived in the Americas in numbers that far exceeded European
migrants up until 1820. Afro-Americans were omnipresent in the
founding and advancement of the Americas, and recurrently
outnumbered Europeans at many times and places, from colonial Peru
to antebellum Virginia. African-descended people contributed to
every facet of American history as explorers, conquistadores,
settlers, soldiers, sailors, servants, slaves, rebels, leaders,
lawyers, litigants, laborers, artisans, artists, activists,
translators, teachers, doctors, nurses, inventors, investors,
merchants, mathematicians, scientists, scholars, engineers,
entrepreneurs, generals, cowboys, pirates, professors, politicians,
priests, poets, and presidents. The multitude of events and
mixed-race individuals included in the book underscores that black
and white Americans share the same history, and in many cases, the
same ancestry. American Founders is meant to celebrate this shared
heritage and strengthen these bonds.
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