Howard W. French
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first heard Dec 2025
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Born in Blackness really was a big change of direction for me in my writing.
It sort of began with the previous book about China, Everything Under the Heavens, which was much more historically oriented than journalistically oriented.
But Born in Blackness is a straight out history book.
It made me want to continue the story.
So Born in Blackness is the story of the last 500 years with regard to the African continent.
The Second Emancipation is the story of the last, let's say, mostly the story of the last 75, 80 years.
But there's some prehistory, if you will, of Pan-Africanism that goes on.
into the account as well.
What does the title mean?
The second emancipation means, or my intended meaning is that we're all familiar or should be with the first emancipation.
So depending on where you live, we've all learned a story about when
white Westerners decided to give up the game, if you will, of enslaving Africans who had been brought across the Atlantic in the transatlantic commerce in human beings in different times, in different places.
In Britain, it's 1807.
In the United States, it's after the Civil War, 1865.
In Brazil, it's a little bit later, et cetera, et cetera, right?
What most people don't know, they should know this too, and if they read my book, they will know this in a deep and intimate way, is that this really did not amount
truly to an emancipation of black people, whether they be Africans or whether they be Africans of the diaspora.
What do I mean by that?
What I mean by that is full citizens' rights were not granted or won in my country, the United States, until well into my childhood.
We Americans tend to romanticize and idealize our own history.
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