THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: A HISTORY OF …

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: A HISTORY OF BLACK AMERICANS from 1619 to 1890

Professor Quintard Taylor Department of History

University of Washington

Fall 2000

Not to know what happened before one was born is to always remain a child.

--Cicero

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed for having at one time been ashamed.

--Ralph Ellison

Awful as race prejudice, lawlessness and ignorance are, we can fight time if we frankly face them and dare name them and tell the truth; but if we continually dodge and cloud the issue, and say the half truth because the whole stings and shames; if we do this, we invite catastrophe. Let us then in all charity but unflinching firmness set our faces against all statesmanship that looks in such directions.

--W.E.B. DuBois

TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE MEANING OF BLACK HISTORY 1

INTRODUCTION 2

COURSE REQUIREMENTS 3

RESEARCH PAPER REQUIREMENT

6

OPTIONAL BOOK REVIEW ASSIGNMENT

7

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY READING LIST

8

CHAPTER ONE: The African Background 18

Terms For Week One 19

THE ORIGIN OF RACE 20

THE "GOLDEN AGE" OF AFRICAN HISTORY 21

URBAN CIVILIZATION IN WEST AFRICA

23

TIMBUKTU: THE URBAN CENTER OF WEST AFRICA

24

THE WRITERS OF TIMBUKTU 25

SLAVERY IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE 26

THE TRANSFORMATION OF SLAVERY 28

SUGAR AND SLAVERY 30

THE SLAVE TRADE AND AFRICAN SOCIETIES

32

AFRICANS AND EUROPEANS ON THE GOLD COAST 33

THE SIGNARES OF SENEGAL 34

THE SLAVE TRADE OVER FOUR CENTURIES 35

THE SLAVE TRADE IN PERSPECTIVE 36

THE SLAVE TRADE: A PARTICIPANT'S ACCOUNT 37

THE SLAVE TRADE: OLAUDAH EQUIANO REMEMBERS

38

OLAUDAH EQUIANO DESCRIBES THE MIDDLE PASSAGE 39

AMERICAN SHIPS AND THE ILLEGAL SLAVE TRADE

40

OMAR IBN SEID: FROM SENEGAL TO NORTH CAROLINA 41

A DEFENSE OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE 42

AFRICANS IN BOLIVIA, 1992 43

CHAPTER TWO: The Evolution of Black Society 45

Terms For Week Two 46

COLOR CONSCIOUSNESS IN 16TH CENTURY ENGLAND 47

ESTEVAN AND THE "DISCOVERY" OF THE U.S. SOUTHWEST

48

ISABEL De OLVERA ARRIVES IN NEW MEXICO

49

MARRIAGE IN COLONIAL NEW MEXICO: THE RODRIGUEZ SAGA

50

THE FOUNDING OF LOS ANGELES

51

BLACKS IN BRITISH NORTH AMERICA: THE FIRST ARRIVALS

52

AFRICANS BECOME AFRICAN AMERICANS 53

BLACK SLAVES AND WHITE SERVANTS IN VIRGINIA, (1705)

54

AFRICAN VS. INDIAN SLAVERY 55

INDIANS AND BLACKS IN THE COLONIAL SOUTHEAST 56

OF CAPTAINS AND KINGS: SLAVERY IN COLONIAL NEW YORK 57

A QUAKER RESOLUTION AGAINST SLAVERY, 1652 59

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BLACK SLAVE CODES

60

THE FAMILY OF ANN JOICE 61

THE SILVER BLUFF BAPTIST CHURCH, 1773 62

SILVER BLUFF BAPTIST CHURCH IN THE 1990s

63

AFRICAN SLAVES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF RICE CULTIVATION 64

JEFFERSON'S "NOTES" ON INDIANS AND BLACKS 65

THE DEBATE OVER THE BLACK MIND 67

BONES OF THE DEAD 68

CHAPTER THREE: Revolution, 1776, and American Slavery

70

Terms For Week Four 71

CRISPUS ATTUCKS AND THE BOSTON MASSACRE 72

LORD DUNMORE'S PROCLAMATION 74

BRITISH TROOPS AND BLACK FREEDOM

75

JAMES OTIS AND THOMAS JEFFERSON ON SLAVERY

76

THE WORLD OF THOMAS JEFFERSON 77

AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

79

A PETITION FOR FREEDOM, 1784

80

BLACK SOLDIERS IN THE SERVICE OF THE REVOLUTION 81

THE RHODE ISLAND FIRST REGIMENT 82

SOUTH CAROLINA CONTEMPLATES BLACK SOLDIERS 83

THE END OF SLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS, 1783 84

THE POETRY OF PHILLIS WHEATLEY 85

CHAPTER FOUR: American Slavery

87

Terms For Week Four 88

THE PLANTATION COMPLEX 89

HAITI AND THE FEARS OF SLAVEHOLDERS 91

HAITI: THE AFTERMATH IN THE SOUTHERN STATES

93

AMERICAN SHIPS AND THE ILLEGAL SLAVE TRADE

95

A NORTHERNER'S DESCRIPTION OF SLAVERY

96

TWO VIEWS OF SLAVERY

97

THE IMPORTANCE OF "BREEDING" 98

SLAVERY'S IMPACT ON RACE AND GENDER ROLES

99

AFRICAN AMERICANS AND SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES 100

SLAVERY AND SOCIAL CONTROL 101

BLACK PARENTS AND THE "SALE" OF THEIR CHILDREN 102

AN ACT PROHIBITING THE TEACHING OF SLAVES TO READ

103

SLAVERY AND SEXUAL ABUSE 104

THE SAGA OF LOUISA PICQUET 106

SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH, 1860 107

AFRICAN SURVIVALS: THE DEBATE 108

AFRICAN SURVIVALS: SLAVE RELIGIOUS MUSIC 109

THE GULLAH LANGUAGE

111

THE PERSISTENCE OF AFRICANISM: BLACK FUNERALS 112

AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SLAVE REVOLT 113

GABRIEL PROSSER'S CONSPIRACY 114

A REBELLION ON THE ANDRY PLANTATION 115

NAT TURNER'S CONFESSION 116

TURNER'S REVOLT: THE IMPACT IN THE SLAVE QUARTERS

118

A FUGITIVE SLAVE RESPONDS TO HIS OWNER

121

CHAPTER FIVE: Free Blacks in a Slave Society 124

Terms For Week Five 125

THE FREE AFRICAN SOCIETY 126

RICHARD ALLEN AND THE FOUNDING OF THE AME CHURCH 127

BENJAMIN BANNEKER'S LETTER TO THOMAS JEFFERSON

128

THE FREE AFRICAN SOCIETY, 1787 129

EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS AND AMERICAN RACISM

130

ELIZA GALLIE GOES TO COURT 132

BLACK WOMEN, MARRIAGE, AND SLAVERY 133

FREEDOM'S JOURNAL'S FIRST EDITORIAL 134

A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS, 1827 135

BLACK MEN ASSESS WOMEN'S RIGHTS

136

AFRO-SPANIARDS IN THE FAR SOUTHWEST 138

FREE BLACKS ON THE TEXAS FRONTIER 139

SANTA ANNA AND BLACK FREEDOM 140

FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED DESCRIBES SAN ANTONIO 141

SLAVE AND FREE BLACKS IN INDIAN TERRITORY 142

THE MORMONS AND BLACK SLAVERY

143

THE O. B. FRANCIS PETITION, 1851 144

BLACK RIGHTS IN ANTEBELLUM OREGON 145

OREGON TERRITORY BANS AFRICAN AMERICANS 146

AFRICAN AMERICANS IN GOLD RUSH CALIFORNIA

147

THE FIRST CALIFORNIA NEGRO CONVENTION, 1855

148

ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA 149

CONVENTION ADDRESS AT THE SECOND NEGRO CONVENTION, 1831 150

THE NORTH STAR: THE FIRST EDITORIAL 151

FREDERICK DOUGLASS ON THE MEXICAN WAR, 1848 152

BLACK VOTERS ENDORSE THE REPUBLICAN TICKET, 1856

153

THE DRED SCOTT DECISION 154

OSBORNE ANDERSON DESCRIBES JOHN BROWN'S RAID 155

ONE BLACK WOMAN'S RESPONSE TO JOHN BROWN'S RAID, 1859

156

CHAPTER SEVEN: The Civil War 158

Terms for Week Seven:

159

RACE AND THE CIVIL WAR

160

SEEKING THE RIGHT TO FIGHT, 1861-1862 161

BLACK "CONTRABAND" 162

CHARLOTTE FORTEN TEACHES THE EX-SLAVES 164

SUSIE KING TAYLOR AND BLACK FREEDOM 165

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION 166

A CHRONOLOGY OF EMANCIPATION, 1772-1888 167

FREDERICK DOUGLASS CALLS ON BLACKS TO FIGHT 168

THE NEW YORK CITY DRAFT RIOT, 1863

169

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