From Captivity to the Present

Black history did not begin with slavery—and it did not end with the Civil Rights Movement.

From Captivity to the Present is a powerful, easy-to-understand teaching history created for families and younger generations.

Inside you’ll discover:

• African life before captivity

• The Middle Passage and American slavery

• Resistance, abolition and emancipation

• Reconstruction and Jim Crow

• The Great Migration

• The Civil Rights Movement

• The changing meaning of Black and African American

• Birth-certificate myths explained with evidence

• Wealth, reparations and today’s unfinished questions

• An educational timeline, glossary and teaching guide

This is more than an e-book. It is a tool for starting the conversations our families need to have.