Ebook: Middle passages: African American journeys to Africa, 1787-2005

Preface / David Levering Lewis -- Introduction: What is Africa to me? -- Prologue: Ayuba's journey -- Windward coast -- Representing the race -- Emigration or extermination -- Mundele Ndom -- So long, so far away -- The spell of Africa -- Native son, American daughter -- Black star -- Counting the bodies -- Epilogue: The language we cry in.;A three-century history of African-American journeys back to Africa, from an America where depicted travelers or their ancestors were slaves, traces the experiences of such people as W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the founders of Liberia.