Born in blackness: Africa, Africans, and the making of the modern world, 1471 to the Second World War
THE "DISCOVERY" OF AFRICA -- The Crackling Surface -- Black King, Golden Scepter -- Rethinking Exploration -- Enter the Aviz -- Islands in the Offing -- The African Main -- THE ESSENTIAL PIVOT -- The Mine -- Asia Suspended -- Wealth in People Versus Wealth in Things -- Circuits Old and New -- Unto the End of the World -- Pathways of Resistance -- Becoming Creole -- THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICANS -- For a Few Acres of Snow -- Fighting for Africans -- Endless Death in Lands with No End -- The Perpetual Oven -- The Cockpit of Europe -- Dung for Every Hole -- Capitalism's Big Jolt -- Masters of Slave, Masters of the Sea -- THE WAGES OF THE PYTHON GOD -- Shatter Zones -- Negros Seguros -- The Slave Rush -- Bargains Sharp and Sinful -- The Spread of the West African Slave Trade -- The Wages of Resistance -- Seized by the Spirit -- Dark Hearts -- War for the Black Atlantic -- A People Scattered, A Continent Drained -- THE BLACK ATLANTIC AND A WORLD MADE NEW -- The Scent of Freedom -- The Black Jacobins -- Gilded Negroes -- Blues and the American Truth -- The Gifts of Black Folk -- How the West Was Made and "Won" -- Toward a New Vision of Our Origins.
