![]() ![]() "Along the way," he says, "I tried to make clear how American slavery came about and what causes lay behind the present attitudes toward Negroes on the part of some people." The long, hard struggle that ensued is a story filled with courage and heroism. But the rich and colorful picture of the Negro in Africa is merely the background for what was to follow when boatloads of stolen men were brought to the shores of America to be sold as slaves. Its scope is wide, for he traces the history of the Negro people from "as far back as it goes" down to the present. In this account of the history of his people, Arna Bontemps has told the story that, he says, "I would have given my eye teeth to know when I was a high school boy in California-the story that my history books barely mentioned." Arab American Book Award Toggle Dropdown.American Indian Youth Literature Toggle Dropdown. ![]()
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