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ОглавлениеCONTENTS
| Part | Page | |
| Foreword | 1 | |
| Why This Book Was Written | 4 | |
| I. | THE AFRICAN BACKGROUND | |
| Africa’s Gift to the World | 9 | |
| The Africans in the Making of America—The First Europeans | 29 | |
| Africa as the Economic Foundation of the United States | 34 | |
| Were Africans the Only Slaves? | 46 | |
| Coming of the Africans. Earlier Ones by States | 67 | |
| II. | THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN IN THE MAKING OF THE UNITED STATES | |
| Defenders of Freedom and Independence | 97 | |
| Revolutionary War | 102 | |
| Negroes in the Personal Service of George Washington | 113 | |
| Negroes in the War of 1799 and 1812 | 115-120 | |
| Economic Dependence on the Negroes | 122 | |
| III. | THE NEGRO IN THE SAVING OF AMERICA | |
| The Civil War | 129 | |
| The Confederacy and Its Use of Negroes | 147 | |
| The Turn Towards Victory for the Union Army | 158 | |
| Deeds of the Negro Soldier and Sailor | 169 | |
| IV. | SOME IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE SLAVE ERA | |
| Slave Artisans and Other Workers | 216 | |
| Africa and the West Today | 243 | |
| V. | NEW SUPPLEMENT—Africa and Its Potentialities | 255 |
| VI. | ADDITIONAL PICTURES | 262 |
