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The Black Diaspora - Five Centuries of the Black Experience Outside Africa (Paperback, 1st Noonday Pr pbk. ed)
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The Black Diaspora - Five Centuries of the Black Experience Outside Africa (Paperback, 1st Noonday Pr pbk. ed)
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The Black Diaspora tells the enthralling story of African-descended
people outside Africa, spanning more than five centuries and a
dozen countries of settlement, from Britain, Canada, and the United
States to Haiti, Guyana, and Brazil. Ronald Segal's account begins
in Africa itself, with the cultures and societies flourishing there
before the arrival of the Atlantic slave trade, which transported
over ten million people to the Americas, after killing at least as
many in their procurement and passage. He examines the extent of
the profits made through the trade by merchants, manufacturers,
investors, and planters, along with the racist ideology that
developed as whites strove to rationalize an enormous economic
dependence. Segal describes the various ways in which the system of
slavery developed and provides the most comprehensive account to
date of the resistance by the slaves themselves, from escape and
arson to guerrilla warfare and revolution. When emancipation
finally came, the former slaves were left in the fetters of poverty
and discrimination. Segal details the course of the struggle
against colonial rule and the racial oppressions of self-styled
democracies. In recounting his own travels through the Diaspora, he
shows the continuing plight of peoples confined by the consequences
of the past and the prejudices of the present: racked by violence,
as in Jamaica and the ghettos of America; denied the right to
assert their sense of identity, as in Cuba; acknowledged only to be
repudiated, as in Brazil. Yet this is also, Segal reveals, a
Diaspora of wondrous achievement. It has immeasurably enriched
world culture in music, language and literature, painting,
sculpture and architecture; has done much to make sports a form of
art; and has invested Western culture with the ecological reverence
derived from its African source. Segal argues that the black
Diaspora has a unique destiny, infused by the love of freedom that
is its creative impulse.
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