- 12 Mar, 2021
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History African Americans in Europe
The standard historiography of abolitionism, anti-lynching, and the Civil Rights Movement typically, and correctly, situates the movements in the United States. But these movements were of concern to peoples around the world, as African Americans in Europe brought attention to their oppression in the US. Please examine how African Americans addressed their struggles for rights on wider stages, such as in Europe and the wider world. How did Europeans react to the African American activists? How did the European experience affect the African American struggles? How did the actions abroad resonate back in the United States?
1- The paper should be very straightforward and using a chronological approach.
2- The essay should include footnotes with the exact page number form each book.
3- The essay should be synthetic, demonstrating mastery of the material attached, and analytic. General statements should be supported by specific examples from the attached readings.
4- The essay will be grounded in historiography and historical methodology.
Sources
1- R.J.M. Blackett, Building an Antislavery Wall: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitionist Movement, 1830-1860 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983).
2- Sarah L. Silkey, Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2015).
3- Arthur E. Barbeau and Florette Henri, The Unknown Soldiers: African-American Troops in World War I (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1974, reprint 1996).