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American Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy It chronicles how black people developed and defended New World settlements undermined slavery and championed freedom throughout the hemisphere from the sixteenth thorough the twentieth centuries While conventional history tends to reduce the roles of African Americans to antebellum slavery and the civil rights movement in reality African residents preceded the English by a century and arrived in the Americas in numbers that far exceeded European migrants up until 1820 AfroAmericans were omnipresent in the founding and advancement of the Americas and recurrently outnumbered Europeans at many times and places from colonial Peru to antebellum Virginia Africandescended people contributed to every facet of American history as explorers conquistadores settlers soldiers sailors servants slaves rebels leaders lawyers translators teachers doctors nurses inventors investors merchants mathematicians scientists scholars and presidents The multitude of events and mixedrace individuals included in the book underscores that black and white Americans share the same history and in many cases the same ancestry American Founders is meant to celebrate this shared heritage and strengthen these bonds