Correction: It was 1536 when Cabeza de Vaca finished his journey
across the
continent. He wrote about it in 1542. ...Sorry...
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"pangosaurus" <pekelito@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Transponder Alpha 200600i01
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> ===start here===[PANG says:]
>
> ...Worth looking at....
>
>
http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm;jsessionid=80301172401136182832468?bhcp=1
>
> PANGosaurus~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ~~cyber-Cogito ergo cyber-Sum~~
> ********************************************
>
> The African-American Migration Experience
>
> New societies, new peoples, and new communities usually originate
> in acts of migration. Someone or ones decide to move from one place
> to another. They choose a new destination and sever their ties with
> their traditional community or society as they set out in search of
> new op****tunities, new challenges, new lives, and new life worlds.
> Most societies in human history have a migration narrative in their
> stories of origin. All communities in American society trace their
> origins in the United States to one or more migration experiences.
> America, after all, is "a nation of immigrants."
>
> But until recently, people of African descent have not been counted
> as part of America's migratory tradition. The transatlantic slave
> trade has created an enduring image of black men and women as
> trans****ted commodities, and is usually considered the most
> defining element in the construction of the African Dias****a, but
> it is centuries of additional movements that have given shape to
> the nation we know today. This is the story that has not been told.
>
> In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presents a new
> interpretation of African-American history, one that focuses on the
> self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake
> themselves and their worlds. Of the thirteen defining migrations
> that formed and transformed African America, only the transatlantic
> slave trade and the domestic slave trades were coerced, the eleven
> others were voluntary movements of resourceful and creative men and
> women, risk-takers in an exploitative and hostile environment.
> Their survival skills, efficient networks, and dynamic culture
> enabled them to thrive and spread, and to be at the very core of
> the settlement and development of the Americas. Their hopeful
> journeys changed not only their world and the fabric of the African
> Dias****a but also the Western Hemisphere.
>
> These journeys did not originate in the east with the 1619 arrival
> of Africans in Jamestown, Virginia, as is commonly believed, but
> almost a century earlier, further south. Indeed, African-American
> history starts in the 1500s with the first Africans coming from
> Mexico and the Caribbean to the Spanish territories of Florida,
> Texas, and other parts of the South. And as early as 1526, Africans
> rebelled and ran away in South Carolina.
>
> [PANG: Note that Estevánico, one of the three companions of the
> Spaniard Alvar Núńez Cabeza de Vaca during his (and theirs) almost
> 6 000 miles across what is now the United States, from the Atlantic
> coast to the Pacific coast (1542) was the first black man to cross
> our country even before it existed as such.
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