What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African
American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this
seemingly simple question. If being "American" means living in a
land of freedom and opportunity, what are we to make of those
Americans who were enslaved and have suffered from the limitations
of second-class citizenship throughout their lives? African
American history illuminates the United States' core paradoxes,
inviting profound questions about what it means to be an American,
a citizen, and a human being. This book considers how, for
centuries, African Americans have fought for what the black
feminist intellectual Anna Julia Cooper called "the cause of
freedom." It begins in Jamestown in 1619, when the first shipment
of enslaved Africans arrived in that settlement. It narrates the
creation of a system of racialized chattel slavery, the eventual
dismantling of that system in the national bloodletting of the
Civil War, and the ways that civil rights disputes have continued
to erupt in the more than 150 years since Emancipation. This Very
Short Introduction carries forward to the Black Lives Matter
movement, a grass-roots activist convulsion that declared that
African Americans' present and past have value and meaning. At a
moment when political debates grapple with the nation's obligation
to acknowledge and perhaps even repair its original sin of
racialized slavery, author Jonathan Scott Holloway tells a story
about American citizens' capacity and willingness to realize the
ideal articulated in America's founding document, namely, that all
people were created equal.
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