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

Almost immediately very sad part of American history began: the period of slavery. Nowadays it’s difficult to understand the way of thinking of this era, but we are often confronted with it, in several 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, a Black American is running for the presidency! Yes, African-American history in America has changed (tremendously|for the good}, which definitely restores ones faith in humankind.

However, there are still many remnants of the period of Black enslavement and discrimination. Nowadays several 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 wish to preserve part of their personal history in the form of African-American memorabilia, but also by other ethnicities who perceive them als valuable tokens of a time that was strongly different from our own, and that should not be forgotten.

Among these Black Americana or collectables are household 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 studied. 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 more profound knowledge of African-American history.

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