1493: : When Africa Met America Before the Slave Ships (How Africans and Native Americans Shaped the Americas)

Before slavery, before Jamestown, before America as we know it - Africans had already reached the New World. 1493: When Africa Met America Before the Slave Ships uncovers the hidden story of how Africans and Native Americans met, traded, and shaped the Americas long before the slave trade defined race. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, archaeological discoveries, and Indigenous oral traditions, Alfred J. Drake Jr. reveals how free Black explorers and mariners walked the same lands as Native n...