Patrick Manning charts a history of African migration that refuses
to divide the diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and
nations. Taking the African continent as a whole, Manning follows
the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African
descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and
the Americas. His six-hundred-year history shows that rather than
isolating blacks from each other, the waters of the Atlantic Ocean,
the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean fueled dynamic
interactions among black communities and cultures, and that these
patterns echoed a number of connected diasporas concurrently taking
shaping across the globe. In rescuing this story from the margins,
Manning also makes clear that black migration is inextricably bound
to the rise of modernity, especially with regard to the processes
of industrialization and urbanization.
Beginning in 1400, Manning organizes his history
chronologically, tracing five central themes throughout: the
connections that enabled Africans to mutually identify and hold
together as a global community; discourses on race; changes in
economic circumstance; the character of family life; and the
evolution of popular culture. His approach builds new connections
between the histories of seemingly disparate and isolated worlds.
In the mid-nineteenth century, for example, slavery came under
attack in North America, South America, southern Africa, West
Africa, the Ottoman Empire, and India, with former slaves rising to
positions of political prominence. Yet at the beginning of the
twentieth century, the near-elimination of slavery brought new
forms of discrimination that removed almost all blacks
fromgovernment. Manning's broad study highlights the tremendous
influence of the African diaspora on world history. It also
demonstrates that the advent of modernity cannot be imaginatively
and comprehensively engaged without taking the African peoples and
the African continent as a whole into account.
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