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The history of the USA contains immigration of many races. It already started tens of thousands of years ago, when prehistoric Asian immigrants crossed the dry land that would later become the Bering Sea, and eventually spread out over the whole continent of North and South America. Their offspring would later become known as Native Americans. Then the Caucasians came, spreading over the whole continent in no time at all.

Only shortly afterwards a disturbing part of American history began: the period of slavery. In our days it’s difficult to understand the reasoning of this era, but we are still confronted with it, in different ways. The presence of the African-American culture in America is very prominent nowadays: the country has come a long way, even to the extend that at the moment I write this, an African-American is running for the presidency! Yes, African-American history in the United States has changed (tremendously|for the good}, which sort of restores ones faith in mankind.

However, there are still many remnants of the era of Black enslavement and discrimination. In our time several of those have become collectable parts of African-American history. Under the name Black Americana those objects are often collected. Sometimes by Black Americans who want to preserve part of their personal history in the form of African-American memorabilia, but also by others who perceive them als valuable tokens of a time that was much different from our own, and that should not be forgotten.

Among these Black Americana or memorabilia are every day objects like kitchenalia, but also originals or replicas of objects from the slavery period itself. Many books about this period are offered, and indeed should be read. African-American memorabilia is a field of interest that reminds us all of how life should never be, and by keeping this reminder in view we contribute to greater knowledge of African-American history.

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