“If the Mayflower was the advent of American freedom, then the White Lion was the advent of American slavery,” Hannah-Jones writes in the chapter. Though the White Lion’s arrival occurred one year before the Pilgrims arrived on the Mayflower, Hannah-Jones explains that the arrival of the White Lion is rarely told, while the landing of the Mayflower is taught as an integral event in American history. Titled “Arrival,” it was written by Nikole Hannah-Jones and tells the history of the “twenty to thirty Angolans” who were sold to Englishmen in Africa and brought to Virginia in 1619 on the ship the White Lion. The book begins with a chapter explaining when and how the first Africans landed in The New World. The book is composed of contributions by 90 different authors who each wrote chapters about different five-year time periods of critical importance that have occurred during the 400-years since the first Africans were brought to America. “Four Hundred Souls” was published by Random Penguin House’s imprint One World and edited by Ibram X. “That’s how we make history interesting and relevant to people, by relating it to what they are experiencing today.”

“The fact that I was able to combine the history with my own personal experiences made it fulfilling,” he said. As a result, he said, the RAC “was responsible for transporting more African people to the Americas than any other entity.” It is essential to understand the Royal African Company, Love said, because in 1672 the RAC was granted a monopoly on the British slave trade between the African continent and the West Indies. Love contributed to the new book “Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019” by writing a chapter about the Royal African Company, a British-owned slave-trading company which Love said was fundamental to England’s “infrastructure of human trafficking,” and it “supplied Africans to meet the labor demands of the lucrative sugar plantations.” Teaching Professor of Journalism and Media Studies David A. Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies.Library and Information Science Department.Journalism and Media Studies Department.Centers, Labs, Working Groups and Clusters.Digital Asset Management - Silver Certificate.Digital Asset Management - Bronze Certificate.Master of Health Communication and Information.Digital Communication, Information and Media Minor.Information Technology and Informatics Major.

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