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It is a race in which we can all choose to participate, or just to watch. But we should know that our choice will help determine the outcome.
I think of the words of the poet Shelley, recited by women garment workers in New York to one another at the start of the twentieth century.
Rise like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number!
Shake your chains to earth, like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you—
Ye are many; they are few!
Bibliography
This book, written in a few years, is based on twenty years of teaching and research in American history, and as many years of involvement in social movements. But it could not have been written without the work of several generations of scholars, and especially the current generation of historians who have done immense work in the history of blacks, Indians, women, and working people of all kinds. It also could not have been written without the work of many people, not professional historians, who were stimulated by the social struggles around them to put together material about the lives and activities of ordinary people trying to make a better world, or just trying to survive.
To indicate every source of information in the text would have meant a book impossibly cluttered with footnotes, and yet I know the curiosity of the reader about where a startling fact or pungent quote comes from. Therefore, as often as I can, I mention in the text authors and titles of books for which the full information is in this bibliography. Where you cannot tell the source of a quotation right from the text, you can probably figure it out by looking at the asterisked books for that chapter. The asterisked books are those I found especially useful and often indispensable.
I have gone through the following standard scholarly periodicals: American Historical Review, Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Journal of American History, Journal of Southern History, Journal of Negro History, Labor History, William and Mary Quarterly, Phylon, The Crisis, American Political Science Review, Journal of Social History.
Also, some less orthodox but important periodicals for a work like this: Monthly Review, Science and Society, Radical America, Akwesasne Notes, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, The Black Scholar, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, The Review of Radical Political Economics, Socialist Revolution, Radical History Review.
1. COLUMBUS, THE INDIANS, AND HUMAN PROGRESS
Brandon, William. The Last Americans: The Indian in American Culture. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.
*Collier, John. Indians of the Americas. New York: W. W. Norton, 1947.
*de las Casas, Bartolomé. History of the Indies. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.
*Jennings, Francis. The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975.
*Koning, Hans. Columbus: His Enterprise. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1976.
*Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York: W. W. Norton, 1975.
Morison, Samuel Eliot. Admiral of the Ocean Sea. Boston: Little, Brown, 1942.
______. Christopher Columbus, Mariner. Boston: Little, Brown, 1955.
*Nash, Gary B. Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1970.
Vogel, Virgil, ed. This Country Was Ours. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
2. DRAWING THE COLOR LINE
*Aptheker, Herbert, ed. A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States. Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel, 1974.
Boskin, Joseph. Into Slavery: Radical Decisions in the Virginia Colony. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1966.
Catterall, Helen. Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro. 5 vols. Washington, Negro University Press, 1937.
Davidson, Basil. The African Slave Trade. Boston: Little, Brown, 1961.
Donnan, Elizabeth, ed. Documents Illustrative