Before the Mayflower; a History of Black AmericaTraces black history from its origins in the great empires of western Africa, the transatlantic journey to slavery, through Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the civil rights upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. |
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... marry nor give in marriage to the heathen , that are uncircumcised . . . . The breaking of this rule , may breake the ... married and mated with Hagar's brothers . Proscription began early . In 1630 , a bare twenty - one years after the ...
... marry nor give in marriage to the heathen , that are uncircumcised . . . . The breaking of this rule , may breake the ... married and mated with Hagar's brothers . Proscription began early . In 1630 , a bare twenty - one years after the ...
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... marry him it was her business . " There are no reliable statistics on the number of obscure people who married across the color line in Reconstructed Dixie . But there is evidence that some did marry . An Irish contractor in Claiborne ...
... marry him it was her business . " There are no reliable statistics on the number of obscure people who married across the color line in Reconstructed Dixie . But there is evidence that some did marry . An Irish contractor in Claiborne ...
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... married the widow of a principal chief of the tribe . Many Negro women married Indian braves . Of the two wives of Micanopy , the head chief of the Seminoles , one was a Negro- Indian . The beautiful Che - cho - ter ( Morning Dew ) was ...
... married the widow of a principal chief of the tribe . Many Negro women married Indian braves . Of the two wives of Micanopy , the head chief of the Seminoles , one was a Negro- Indian . The beautiful Che - cho - ter ( Morning Dew ) was ...
Contents
THE AFRICAN PAST | 3 |
BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER | 29 |
THE NEGRO IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | 48 |
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