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beyondevak's review against another edition
5.0
Quick Summary: This is an incredible work filled with fascinating details. It’s a book that I have used and will continue to use for the academic enrichment of myself and my students. It should be in every library.
Rating: 5/5
Recommend: YES
Audience: All
Rating: 5/5
Recommend: YES
Audience: All
booksylamb's review against another edition
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
This is a beautiful book that suits a coffee table read full of informative details about the African Diaspora. The quality of the pages, the print, and the writing, are an emblem of excellence.
nixieclerk's review against another edition
5.0
Astounding book. I learned so much, and the format makes it an easy read despite the length.
jerkstorecalling's review against another edition
5.0
Just a superb book from start to finish. Gates provides an update (I didn't know we needed) to a classic book (I didn't know existed), and it's a remarkable job. It's entertaining, it's informative, it flows better than any collection of facts I've seen, and it's an outstanding work of black history. Can't recommend enough.
ida_ree's review against another edition
4.0
An updated and expanded version of Joel Rogers' 1957 book by the same title. Some of this I knew and some was entirely new to me. Mexico had a Black president 180 years before the U.S. did; what’s myth and what’s documented fact about Harriet Tubman; a bit about Black saints; what has been learned about the roots of the U.S. population through the use of DNA testing and what the limits are to what it can tell us.
leanettascott82's review
5.0
It's a very good book and would be great for a history teacher and/or homeschoolers. I liked learning and exploring the facts and information on the history African Americans. I love the book and will definitely be implementing it into my homeschool history lectures this year. If you're into history and facts of African Americans then this your book.
peachani's review
informative
medium-paced
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism and Slavery
Moderate: Death, Homophobia, and Violence
Minor: Genocide, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse
autumnadrift's review
4.0
This volume was a bit intimidating at first. However, I found that each fact was afforded a few pages, which made it easy to pick up and put down frequently. I found some questions might have been posed a century ago, and some were very modern — all of them were intriguing.