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Beginning with antiquity Reversing Sail A History of the African Diaspora captures the essential political cultural social and economic developments that shaped the black experience In this second edition Michael A Gomez updates the text to include the most recent research on the African Diaspora Continuing to pay particular attention to the lives of the working classes the second edition expands its temporal boundaries to include developments into the twentyfirst century as well as integrating women and feminist perspectives more thoroughly It also widens the geographical span to include Latin America while incorporating more on African experiences in Europe North Africa and the Persian Gulf Assessing the impact of religion global trade slavery and resistance and the challenges of modernity this edition further connects the experiences of Africans and their descendants over time and space attending to both convergences and divergences while explaining how the deep past informs subsequent developments