Table of Contents

Illustrations and maps; Preface; Part I. The Slave Trade: 1. The transatlantic slave trade: an overview; 2. The legal slave trade in North America; 3. Ending the slave trade; 4. The U.S. Navy and the antislavery campaign; 5. The effects of the slave trade; Part II. Commerce, Christianity, and Colonization Societies Up To 1865: 6. American traders and whalers; 7. Missionaries and colonization societies; 8. Explorers and frontiersmen; Part III. The United States and Africa, 1865–1900: 9. The vanishing flag; 10. Liberia: the lamb and the wolves; 11. Bula Matari and the Congo; 12. Neutrality and philanthropy; 13. Traders, explorers, and soldiers of misfortune; 14. Miners and adventurers; 15. Capitalists and missionaries; Part IV. The United States and Africa, 1900–1939: 16. Official America; 17. Private interest groups; 18. Preachers and teachers in Africa; 19. Black nationalism and the search for an African past; Part V. The United States in Africa, 1939–1983: 20. Africa between East and West; 21. Economic activities: the private sector; 22. Economic activities: the public sector; 23. American interests in Africa, 1945–1983; 24. Americans in Africa, and Africans in America; Appendixes; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.

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This study traces the reciprocal relationship between Africa and America from the seventeenth-century slave trade onwards.

Reviews

'This remains a significant book, comprehensive in scope and balanced in treatment.' American Historical Review 'A solid researched and detailed account of the relations between Americans and Africa, and to a lesser extent of Africans with the U.S.A., since the founding of the Republic. Specific attention is given throughout to the role of Afro-Americans in this relationship.' Journal of Southern History 'There is something for everyone in this rich cavalcade of Americans' experience of Africa and of Africans' experience of America.' West Africa