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What happens when you consider the origins of modernity and center Africa rather than Europe? Howard W. French's book, "Born in Blackness," explores that very question as he investigates the forgotten history of how Africa and its relations to the Western world played an integral role in the development of the modern world. Moderated by Lanisa Kitchiner.
Howard W. French's Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War is the winner of the 2022 MAAH Stone Book Award!
“Born in Blackness” is laced with arresting nuggets. It was news to me that the trade of colonial North America was overwhelmingly directed toward the Caribbean, “the boiler room of the North Atlantic economy.” In the late 18th century, white Jamaicans enjoyed an annual income 35 times that of British North Americans. French notes that more slaves were trafficked to Martinique, less than one-quarter the size of Long Island, than to the entire United States, while the French so prized tiny Guadeloupe that th
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吾国与吾民 | my country and my people - 01 blog 博客
Roy Cross's Blog | An exercise in commitment and sustainability
Mutant Palm – Formerly Musing Under The Tenement Palm