Before the Mayflower

This book grew out of a series of articles which were published originally in Ebony magazine. The book, like the series, deals with the trials and triumphs of a group of Americans whose roots in the American soil are deeper than those of the Puritans who arrived on the celebrated "Mayflower" a year after a "Dutch man of war" deposited twenty Negroes at Jamestown.

This is a history of "the other Americans" and how they came to North America and what happened to them when they got here. The st...