The Black Quadricentennial: This coming August, as some of you might know, is the 400th anniversary of the first recorded arrival of Black people at Jamestown, Virginia, into the society that would become the US. The beginning of Black America, in other words.
I will, of course, do a post on 1619, but while I am at it I am going to do posts on Black America in 1719, 1819, 1919, and 2019. And I will go backwards too: West Africa in 1219, 1319, 1419, 1519.
So, God willing:
- Apr 2019: West Africa in 1219
- May 2019: West Africa in 1319
- Jun 2019: West Africa in 1419
- Jul 2019: West Africa in 1519
- Aug 2019: West Africa, Angola, and Black America in 1619
- Sep 2019: West Africa and Black America in 1719
- Oct 2019: Black America in 1819
- Nov 2019: Black America in 1919
- Dec 2019: Black America in 2019
There will continue to be posts on all sorts of things, but those will be the times and places I will concentrate my reading and writing on, in place of any non-Black history months.
– Abagond, 2019.
Looking forward to these post.
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Nice and good idea
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What’s the big deal about 400 years of Blacks “in the wilderness of north America”, as the Black Muslin’s newspaper used to call this nation? Most Blacks in the Americas are Brazilians.
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Apropos Angola 1619, one fact that we never study in brazilian history is that Angola was taken by the Dutch a few years after they took BR’s northeast.
And that the same brazilians that fought and expelled the Dutch from Brazil crossed the Atlantic and expelled the Dutch from Angola
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_history_of_Angola
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