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THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA The Immigrant Heritage

of America By Norman Coombs Publisher: Twayne, (c 1972)

Contents
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction (ommitted from electronic
version)
PART ONE From Freedom to Slavery
1. African Origins The Human Cradle West African Empires The
Culture of West Africa
2, The Human Market The Slave Trade Caribbean Interlude
3. Slavery As Capitalism The Shape of American Slavery North
American and South American Slavery Slavery and the Formation of
Character Slave Response
4. All Men Are Created Equal Slavery and the American Revolution
Slave Insurrections Growing Racism
Part Two. Emancipation without Freedom
5. A Nation Divided Black Moderates and Militants White