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A groundbreaking history of the journeys of black Americans back to Africa over the course of three centuries, this book reveals that without understanding the long-evolving place of Africa in the African-American imagination, the understanding of American history is woefully incomplete.

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Penguin announces a prestigious new series under presiding editor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Many works of history deal with the journeys of blacks in bondage from Africa to the United States along the ?middle passage,? but there is also a rich and little examined history of African Americans traveling in the opposite direction. In Middle Passages, award-winning historian James T. Campbell vividly recounts more than two centuries of African American journeys to Africa, including the experiences of such extraordinary figures as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. DuBois, Richard Wright, Malcolm X, and Maya Angelou. A truly groundbreaking work, Middle Passages offers a unique perspective on African Americans? ever-evolving relationship with their ancestral homeland, as well as their complex, often painful relationship with the United States.

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Penguin announces a prestigious new series under presiding editor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Many works of history deal with the journeys of blacks in bondage from Africa to the United States along the "middle passage," but there is also a rich and little examined history of African Americans traveling in the opposite direction. In Middle Passages, award-winning historian James T. Campbell vividly recounts more than two centuries of African American journeys to Africa, including the experiences of such extraordinary figures as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. DuBois, Richard Wright, Malcolm X, and Maya Angelou. A truly groundbreaking work, Middle Passages offers a unique perspective on African Americans' ever-evolving relationship with their ancestral homeland, as well as their complex, often painful relationship with the United States.

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IN THE FOUR HUNDRED YEARS after Columbus touched ground at San Salvador, some fifteen million Africans were loaded into ships and borne into the maelstrom of New World slavery.

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Title Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
Author James T. Campbell; Preface by David Levering Lewis
Binding Paperback
Edition [ Edition: repri
Pages 560
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Penguin Books, East Rutherford, NJ, U.S.A.
Publication date 2007-05-01
Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780143111986 / 0143111981
Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
Dimensions 8.65 x 5.83 x 1.22 in (21.97 x 14.81 x 3.10 cm)
Age range 18 to UP years
Grade levels 13 - UP
Themes
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Cultural Region: African
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Topical: Black History
Category Ethnic Issues
Library of Congress subjects Africa - Description and travel, African Americans - Travel - Africa - History
Dewey Decimal Code 916.043

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Campbell is a master storyteller who engages the reader in the human drama of American blacks confronting cultural realities that do not always square with the myths of an imagined native land. . . . Campbell provides an artful reconstruction of the often bittersweet experience of return and reunion. (The New York Times Book Review)

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New York Review of Books, 09/27/2007, Page 41
New York Times, 06/17/2007, Page 24

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James T. Campbell, PhD, is professor of United States history and the Edgar E. Robinson Professor in United States history at Stanford University. Dr. Campbell earned his BA from Yale University and both his MA and PhD from Stanford University. He is the author of Race, Nation, and Empire in American History and Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005.

David Levering Lewis is the author of God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215; W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919; W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963; and more. Lewis's work can be characterized as comparative history with interests in biography, civil rights, Europe and empire, and cultural politics. He is professor of history at New York University.

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