Before the Mayflower

Before the Mayflower provides a detailed and engaging history of African Americans, covering their experiences from the Colonial period through slavery, Reconstruction, and the civil rights upheavals of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The book emphasizes the deep roots of African Americans in American history, predating the arrival of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower.

It includes a timeline and archival images, making it a seminal study in African American history.