"In association with the National Museum of African American History and Culture."

"The companion book to a groundbreaking exhibition on African American history and culture-with 150 powerful illustrations of people and objects"--

Many impacts of the Transatlantic slave trade / Jennifer L. Morgan -- Control and restraint / Miles Greenwood -- Surveillance and segregation / Ivie Orobaton -- Fighting back / Alexander Scott -- Reclaiming Valongo / Mônica Lima e Souza -- From no return : the São José / Paul Gardullo -- "My Name Is February" / Diana Ferrus -- Atlantic slavery, colonization, and shattered modern sovereignties / Ibrahima Thiaw -- Marème : footsteps to freedom / Fatoumata Camara -- An anthem of identity / Amadou Thiam -- Ironwork and speculative world making / Michelle D. Commander -- Tahro : shaping spiritual vessels / Johanna Obenda -- Industry and extraction / Ivie Orobaton -- Weaving history and healing / Johanna Obenda -- Domestic world making of the enslaved / Geri Augusto -- Paánza : seeds of memory / Johanna Obenda -- Tòya : drumbeats of revolution / Sherri V. Cummings -- Jan : notes from a healer / Shanaaz Galant -- Roosje : a mother's testimony / Candra Flanagan -- William : Sailor against slavery / Marcus Rediker -- Rebellion at sea / Kate McMahon -- "Testimony" / Kevin Young -- Black freedom making before and after Emancipation / Minkah Makalani -- Dragon of the sea / Keila Grinberg -- Pan-Africanism and Black freedom / Kate McMahon -- Fashioning identity / Johanna Obenda -- Anastácia freed / Yhuri Cruz and Aline Montenegro Magalhães -- Songs of freedom -- A past still present / Shana Weinberg -- Fouta and Saint-Louis, Senegal / Fatoumata Camara -- Belgium and the Democratic Republic of the Congo / Bambi Ceuppens -- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Martha Abreu and Vinícius Natal -- Africatown, United States / Gabrielle Chantal Miller and Johanna Obenda -- Cape Town, South Africa / Shanaaz Galant and Paul Tichmann -- Liverpool, United Kingdom / Alexandra Creighton and Lisa Edison -- Always making history : reframing Black life / Anthony Bogues -- "Slavery, colonialism and the present : a reflection" / Mongane Wally Serote