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A review by mikusa
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism by John Henrik Clarke
4.0
3.5 stars.
This was pretty well written and informative. We need more books on this topic. It felt a bit more like a lecture than a book. Clarke made a lot of claims, and it wasn't apparent from the audiobook whether he was referencing those, because he didn't mention sources very much. I'd like to look into some of those things more. The last half hour was quite the polemic for black nationalism. There was good and bad in that, but some of it felt like a call to divide people into their racial categories. I don't understand how Clarke's vision could be accomplished without hyper-segregating people and encouraging the different 'races' to avoid mixing and interaction. Something to think about...
This was pretty well written and informative. We need more books on this topic. It felt a bit more like a lecture than a book. Clarke made a lot of claims, and it wasn't apparent from the audiobook whether he was referencing those, because he didn't mention sources very much. I'd like to look into some of those things more. The last half hour was quite the polemic for black nationalism. There was good and bad in that, but some of it felt like a call to divide people into their racial categories. I don't understand how Clarke's vision could be accomplished without hyper-segregating people and encouraging the different 'races' to avoid mixing and interaction. Something to think about...