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This 7 page paper discusses Bennett's book "Before the Mayflower," a history of Black Americans. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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now in its seventh edition and continues to be recommended as a comprehensive guide to the African-American experience. This paper reviews the book. Discussion The first thing that a reader
notices (or should notice) is the title, since it implies that we need to examine the African-American experience from a different perspective. Its probably fair to say that we think
of black history in two large segments: slavery, and the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. The title of the book reminds us that black Americans have been part of
the history of the United States since before it was even a country. Bennetts book grew "out of series of articles which were published originally in Ebony magazine" and "deals
with the trials and triumphs of a group of Americans whose roots in the American soil are deeper than those of the Puritans who arrived on the celebrated Mayflower a
year after a Dutch man of war deposited twenty Negroes at Jamestown" (Bennett). Bennetts book covers Black history from the ancient world through the Civil Rights movement, beginning
with the "great empires of the Sudan and Nile Valley and ... [ending] with the second Reconstruction which Martin Luther King, Jr., and the sit-in generation fashioned in the
North and South" (Bennett). Bennett pays a good deal of attention to detail, explaining the position of Blacks in ancient civilizations such as Egypt, but he spends a lot
of time on describing what life was like for slaves in the American south. This is understandable, as it is the experience of slavery that has, to a great extent,
shaped Black Americans fortunes to this day. He tells of the division of slaves between "field Negroes" and "house Negroes"; the types of punishments slaves endured (usually 39 lashes); and
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