Strange New Land: African Americans 1617-1776

by Peter H. Wood

Book Overview

For Africans who survived the trans-Atlantic journey and were forced to disembark at one of the many ports along the coast of Britain's North American colonies, what lay before them was indeed a strange new land. Although forms of bondage had existed in West and Central Africa long before the
trans Atlantic slave trade began, human beings were rarely the main commodity at the marketplace. Here in the modern world, the enslaved African was inspected,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195087003
• ISBN13: 9780195087000
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.8" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12