Tue 30 Sep, 2008
The history of the United States contains immigration of many races. It already started tens of thousands of years ago, when prehistoric Asian immigrants crossed the dry land that would later become the Bering Sea, and eventually spread out over the whole continent of America. Their offspring would later become known as Native Americans. Then the White people came, occupying the whole continent in no time at all.
Only shortly afterwards the most disturbing part of American history started: the time of slavery. Nowadays it’s difficult to understand the way of thinking of this period, but we are often confronted with it, in several ways. The presence of the Black culture in America is very prominent nowadays: the nation has come a long way, even to the extend that at the moment I write this, an African-American is running for the presidency! Yes, African-American history in America has changed (tremendously|for the good}, which sort of restores ones faith in humanity.
However, there are still many remnants of the times of Black enslavement and oppression. Nowadays several of those have become collectable parts of Afro-American history. Under the general lable Black Americana those objects are often collected. Often by Black Americans who need to preserve part of their cultural history in the form of African-American memorabilia, but also by others who see them als valuable tokens of a time that was much different from our own, and that must not be forgotten.
Among these Black Americana or memorabilia are every day objects like kitchen utensils, but also originals or replicas of objects from the slave period itself. Many documents about this era are offered, and indeed should be studied. Black Americana is a subject that reminds us all of how life should never be, and by keeping this reminder in view we contribute to more profound knowledge of African-American history.
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