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International Socialist Review, Spring 1965

 

Americans in Black Africa

 

From International Socialist Review, Vol.26 No.2, Spring 1965, p.63.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.

 

Americans in Black Africa up to 1865
by Clarence C. Clendenen & Peter Duignan
Hoover Institution Studies: 5,” The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1964. 109pp. $1.50.

With lengthy footnotes and an extended bibliography, this monograph is a useful handbook of American relations with Africa prior to the Civil War, excluding the slave trade. (A previous publication, The United States and the African Slave Trade, 1619-1862, in the same series, covers the omitted topic.)

The book describes “legitimate” trade, colonization, and exploration, with emphasis on trade. Details of the competition between America and other colonialist powers, over African wealth and markets are provided, and a description of the type and amounts of American imports and exports to Africa.

The founding of Liberia, and other “back to Africa” colonization attempts are briefly mentioned. The monograph, however, makes no pretense at providing the African side of this story.

 
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