Sunday, January 24, 2010

The Black Old Testament: A Pantheon of Black Gods.

My old testament is Black History. From the time Africans were taken from their homeland and dispersed throughout the America's and Europe, they entered a time of modernization, spiritually, culturally, and socially, which would forever transform the African Experience.

There are non-canonized books to this Black Testament. Some experiences are essential. Jamestown, Spanish Florida, French Holdings in New Orleans, Jamaica, Haiti, England, Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela as well as the Caribbean.

Books of the Black Old Testament

Africa
The Middle Passage
1619-Jamestown
Estanvancio
Native Americans
Early Republic
Missouri Compromise
King Cotton & The Cotton Gin
Miscegenation
Nullification Crisis
Black Religion
The Gag Rule
The Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Slave Narratives:
The book of William Grimes 1825
The book of Mary Prince 1831
The book of Charles Ball 1836
The book of Moses Roper 1837
The book of Frederick Douglass 1845
The book of Milton Clarke 1846
The book of William Wells Brown 1847
The book of Josiah Henson 1849
The book of Henry Bibb 1849
The book of James W. C. Pennington 1849
The book of Solomon Northup 1853
The book of John Brown 1855
The book of John Thompson 1855
The book of Peter Still and his Wife "Vina," 1856
The book of William and Ellen Craft 1860
The book of Harriet Jacobs, Boston 1861
The book of John Andrew Jackson 1862
The book of J. D. Green 1864
The book of Mary Reynolds 1827
The Republican Party
The Abolionist: Frederick Douglas, William Garrison, Theodore Weld, Angelina & Susan Grimke, William Wilberforce
Black Women: Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Tubman, Mary Bethune Cookman
"Bleeding Kansas"
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Dred Scott decision (1857) and the Lecompton Constitution
Assault on Sumner (1856)
Panic of 1857 and sectional realignments
John Brown and Harpers Ferry (1859)
The Civil War
Reconstruction
Black Codes
Jim Crow
Historically Black Colleges & Universities
W.E.B. Dubois, Booker T. Washington, Carter G. Woodson, Franklin Frazier, Marcus Garvey, John Henrik Clarke, John Hope Franklin, C.L.R. James
Buffalo Soldiers
The Harlem Renaissance Black Artists & Paul Robeson
Black Religious Leaders
Black Indians
Thorogood Marshall
The NAACP
The Civil Rights Movement
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Robert F. Williams
The Boycotts
non-Violent Protest
Black Athletes
Black Religion
Black Power
Jesse Jackson
The Modern Age

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