American Founders: How Folks of African Descent Established Freedom within the New World

American Founders reveals women and men of African descent as key protagonists within the story of American democracy. It chronicles how black folks developed and defended New World settlements, undermined slavery, and championed freedom all through the hemisphere from the sixteenth thorough the 20 th centuries. Whereas standard historical past tends to scale back the roles of African People to antebellum slavery and the civil rights motion, in actuality African residents preceded the English by a century and arrived within the Americas in numbers that far exceeded European migrants up till 1820. Afro-People have been omnipresent within the founding and development of the Americas, and recurrently outnumbered Europeans at many occasions and locations, from colonial Peru to antebellum Virginia. African-descended folks contributed to each aspect of American historical past as explorers, conquistadores, settlers, troopers, sailors, servants, slaves, rebels, leaders, legal professionals, litigants, laborers, artisans, artists, activists, translators, lecturers, docs, nurses, inventors, buyers, retailers, mathematicians, scientists, students, engineers, entrepreneurs, generals, cowboys, pirates, professors, politicians, monks, poets, and presidents. The multitude of occasions and mixed-race people included within the e book underscores that black and white People share the identical historical past, and in lots of circumstances, the identical ancestry. American Founders is supposed to have a good time this shared heritage and strengthen these bonds.