The history of the USA 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 North and South America. Their descendents would later become known as Native Americans. Then the White people came, spreading over the whole continent in a very short time.

Only shortly afterwards very sad part of American history started: the time of slavery. In our days it’s hard to understand the way of thinking of this period, but we are still confronted with it, in different ways. The presence of the African 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 president! Yes, African-American history in America has changed (tremendously|for the good}, which sort of restores ones faith in mankind.

However, there are still many remains of the period of slavery and discrimination. Nowadays many of those have become collectable parts of Black American history. Under the name Black Americana those objects are often collected. Often by African-Americans who need to preserve part of their personal history in the form of African-American memorabilia, but also by other ethnicities who perceive them als signs of a time that was strongly different from our own, and that must not be forgotten.

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

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