Black Indians/Black West: Essays

New York and Slavery: Time to Teach the Truth (2008)
Author: Alan J. Singer
As some southern legislatures, prodded by African American representatives, expressed regret over their states' role in slave trading and exploiting slave labor, a kind of "truth and reconciliation" movement has stirred educators. So far the focus has been on the southern states where African people were brutally exploited, their families sundered, resulting in a civil war and a nation wide system of racial inequality. Now some educators who welcome this truth are claiming it omits the complicity of "the free North."... {Read this essay}

Other Book Reviews by William Loren Katz

Slavery and the Founders Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson (2001)
Author: Paul Finkelman
In his fully-researched and measured Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson, Professor Paul Finkelman, an authority on early US history, argues persuasively that the Founding Fathers of the Constitution were fatally flawed on issues of race and slavery, that they surrendered to slaveholders, and the best among them didn't even put up a fight.
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Vincente Guerrero The Legacy of Vicente Guerrero, Mexico's First Black Indian President (2001)
Author: Theodore G. Vincent
Vincent relates Guerrero's story with verve and style...his fine, detailed study restores one of the great figures of the Americas, and places him along with others of his class and color in the limelight of history they earned through daring, courage and sacrifice.
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