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 descendents would later become known as Native Americans. Then the Caucasians came, spreading over the whole continent in a very short time.

Only shortly afterwards very sad part of American history began: the time of slavery. Nowadays it’s difficult to understand the way of thinking of this era, but we are often confronted with it, in many ways. The presence of the African-American population 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 America has changed (tremendously|for the good}, which definitely restores ones faith in mankind.

However, there are still many remains of the era of slavery and oppression. Nowadays many of those have become collectable parts of African-American history. Under the general lable Black Americana those objects are often collected. Often by African-Americans who need to preserve part of their cultural history in the form of African-American memorabilia, but also by others who see them als signs of a time that was strongly different from our own, and that should never be forgotten.

Among these Black Americana or memorabilia are household objects like kitchenalia, but also originals or replicas of objects from the slavery period itself. Many documents about this period can be found, and indeed should be studied. African-American memorabilia is a subject that reminds us all of how life should not be, and by keeping this reminder alive we contribute to more profound consciousness of African-American history.

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