The history of the United States contains immigration of many races. It already started tens of thousands of years ago, when prehistoric Asian hunter-gatherers crossed the dry land that would later become the Bering Sea, and eventually spread out over the whole continent of the Americas. Their offspring would later become known as Native Americans. Then the Europeans came, occupying the whole continent in a very short time.

Very soon thereafter the most disturbing part of New World history began: the period of slavery. Nowadays it’s almost imposible to understand the way of thinking of this period, but we are still confronted with it, in many ways. The presence of the Black culture in the US is very prominent nowadays: the nation has come a long way, even to the extend that at the moment I write this, a Black American is running for president! Yes, African-American history in the United States has changed (tremendously|for the good}, which sort of restores ones faith in humanity.

However, there are still many remnants of the era of Black enslavement and discrimination. Presently many of those have become collectable parts of Black American history. Under the general lable Black Americana those objects are often collected. Sometimes by African-Americans who want to preserve part of their personal history in the form of African-American memorabilia, but also by other ethnicities who see them als important memorabilia of a time that was strongly different from our own, and that must not be forgotten.

Among these Black Americana or collectables are every day objects like kitchen utensils, but also originals or replicas of objects from the slavery period itself. Many books about this era can be found, and indeed should be studied. Black Americana is a field of interest that reminds us all of how life should not be, and by keeping this reminder in view we contribute to better consciousness of African-American history.

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