When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Historical References
- Sundiata (16.15, referenced throughout)
- Sogolon, the Buffalo Woman (16.17)
- Oba of Benin (24.12)
- Alexander the Great (24.20)
- Sy Gilliat (53.11)
- Crispus Attucks (56.5)
- George Leile (56.10)
- Patrick Henry (56.14)
- William Dawes (56.15)
- Paul Revere (56.15)
- George Washington (56.16, referenced throughout)
- Lord Dunmore (56.25)
- General Cornwallis (56.36)
- Billy Flora (56.41)
- George Middleton (56.46)
- Thomas Jefferson (56.50, referenced throughout)
- John Adams (64.18, referenced throughout)
- Benjamin Rush (66.1)
- James Derham (66.1, referenced throughout)
- Toussaint Louverture (72.22, referenced throughout)
- Julius Caesar (72.22)
- Alexander Hamilton (75.16, referenced throughout)
- Gabriel Prosser (77.9)
- Aaron Burr (78.1)
- Sally Hemings (78.4)
- Benjamin Banneker (79.29)
- Prince Hall (79.31)
- Napoleon (79.33, referenced throughout)
- Robert Fulton (88.30)
- Davy Crockett (88.30, referenced throughout)
- Daniel Webster (88.30)
- Denmark Vesey (91.4)
- Andrew Jackson (95.63)
- Chief Osceola (100.2)
- General Santa Anna (100.3, referenced throughout)
- Martin Van Buren (100.4)
- General Winfield Scott (100.7)
- James Polk (102.51)
- Zachary Taylor (102.51)
- Stephen Foster (102.54)
- Frederick Douglass (102.58)
- Sojourner Truth (102.59)
- Harriet Tubman (102.62)
- Stephen Douglas (102.65, referenced throughout)
- James Buchanan (107.8)
- Jefferson Davis (110.30)
- Giles Mebane (110.33)
- John Ellis (110.42)
- Robert E. Lee (110.42)
- General Stonewall Jackson (111.49)
- General Sherman (113.1)
- General Ulysses S. Grant (113.5)
- Reverend Sylus Henning (114.37)
- Malcolm X (118.27)
- Colonel O'Hare (120.52)
- George Washington Carver (120.73)
Pop Culture References
- Miles Davis (118.27)