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| 1 | African medicine in the new world | 3 |
| Cotton Mather on smallpox inoculation (1716) | 5 | |
| An account of the method and success of inoculating the small-pox in Boston (1722) | 6 | |
| 2 | New world skills | 7 |
| Runaway slave advertisements | 9 | |
| A profile of runaway slaves in Virginia and South Carolina from 1730 through 1787 | 12 | |
| Advertisement for a fugitive slave (1769) | 14 | |
| Letter from Benjamin Banneker to the secretary of state, with his answer (1792) | 15 | |
| 3 | The persistence of craft | 23 |
| Advertisements for runaway slaves in Virginia, 1801-1820 | 25 | |
| Life and times of Frederick Douglass (1882) | 29 | |
| The fugitive blacksmith; or, events in the history of James W. C. Pennington | 37 | |
| Uncle Tom's cabin (1852) | 40 | |
| A journey in the seaboard slave states (1856) and a journey in the back country (1861) | 44 | |
| His promised land : the autobiography of John P. Parker, former slave and conductor on the Underground Railroad | 49 | |
| Layout of Parker's Phoenix Foundry (1884) | 54 | |
| U.S. patent to John Percial Parker for a soil-pulverizer (1890) | 55 | |
| Tending a cotton gin (1853) | 58 | |
| 4 | The new industrial age | 59 |
| Notes on North America, agricultural, economical, and social (1851) | 61 | |
| Scenes from Oak Lawn, Louisiana plantation (1864) | 64 | |
| Slave labor as reported in Nile's weekly register (1849) and DeBow's Southern and Western review (1851) | 66 | |
| The history of the first locomotives in America (1874) | 71 | |
| Advertisement in The liberator seeking colored inventors (1834) | 74 | |
| U.S. patent to Norbert Rillieux for an "improvement in sugar-works" (1843) | 75 | |
| U.S. patent to Norbert Rillieux for an "improvement in sugar-making" (1846) | 87 | |
| The Confederate Patent Act (1861) | 89 | |
| 5 | Finding a place in the industrial age | 93 |
| Mechanism and art (1873) | 95 | |
| Using jokes to invent the expert | 97 | |
| John Henry, the steel driving man (1929) | 98 | |
| The Eclipse clothes wringer (c. 1880s) | 100 | |
| Woman with bicycle (c. 1890s) | 101 | |
| The taint of the bicycle (1902) | 102 | |
| 6 | Training for the industrial age | 109 |
| Comments on the advisibility of instructing engineering students in the history of the engineering profession (1903) | 111 | |
| Industrial education; will it solve the Negro problem, II (1904) | 113 | |
| The training of Negroes for social power (1904) | 120 | |
| Industrial education - will it solve the Negro problem (1904) | 127 | |
| Working with the hands (1904) | 132 | |
| How electricity is taught at Tuskegee (1904) | 136 | |
| Racial progress as reported in The colored American magazine (1902) | 142 | |
| The American Negro artisan (1904) | 144 | |
| Results of some hard experiences : a plain talk to young men (1902) | 153 | |
| Manufacturing household articles (1904) | 157 | |
| The career of mechanic John G. Howard (1902) | 161 | |
| 7 | Inventors | 163 |
| The colored inventor : a record of fifty years (1913) | 165 | |
| Clara Frye, a woman inventor (1907) | 172 | |
| U.S. patent to Garret A. Morgan for a "breathing device" (1914) | 174 | |
| 8 | The rural South | 181 |
| You may plow here : the narrative of Sara Brooks | 183 | |
| Cotton picking machines and southern agriculture | 189 | |
| We (1927) | 191 | |
| 9 | Industrial employment | 193 |
| Tuskegee ideals in industrial education (1926) | 195 | |
| Women at work : a century of industrial change (1934) | 199 | |
| The typewriter (1926) | 202 | |
| 10 | The automobile | 209 |
| Automobiles and the Jim Crow regulations (1924) | 211 | |
| Through the windshield (1933) | 212 | |
| Running the red light (Tilman C. Cothran) | 216 | |
| U.S. patent to G. A. Morgan for a "traffic signal" (1923) | 217 | |
| 11 | Learning to fly | 223 |
| Soaring above setbacks : the autobiography of Janet Harmon Bragg, African American aviator | 225 | |
| Coffey School of Aeronautics (1944) and 99th pursuit squadron, air unit (1942) | 226 | |
| Lt. Clarence "Lucky" Lester | 229 | |
| 12 | War work | 231 |
| Negro workers and the national defense program (1942) | 233 | |
| A black woman at work in a wartime airplane assembly plant | 245 | |
| Graduate Technicians and National Technical Association (1944) | 246 | |
| Defense and wartime employment (1946-1947) | 248 | |
| Bay area council against discrimination, San Francisco (1942) | 252 | |
| 13 | After the war | 255 |
| Elm City, a Negro community in action (1945) | 257 | |
| Mechanization in agriculture (1941-1946) | 260 | |
| The Negro in the aerospace industry (1968) | 265 | |
| 14 | Setting a political agenda | 279 |
| Revolution in a technological society (1971) | 281 | |
| 15 | Ties to Africa | 289 |
| Mickey Leland and the USAID Bureau for Africa | 291 | |
| Solar cooking demonstration in Akwasiho Village, Ghana | 295 | |
| 16 | Engineering careers | 301 |
| Women and minorities in science and engineering | 303 | |
| History of the National Society of Black Engineers (1997) | 309 | |
| Black women engineers and technologists | 313 | |
| Careers in science and technology (1993) | 330 | |
| 17 | Accessing the information age | 339 |
| Bridging the racial divide on the Internet (1998) | 341 | |
| Cyberghetto : blacks are falling through the Net (1998) | 348 | |
| Troubletown (1998) | 352 | |
| The black technological entrepreneur (1999) | 353 | |
| 18 | Technological troubles | 357 |
| A place at the table : a Sierra roundtable on race, justice, and the environment, and the letter that shook a movement (1993) | 359 | |
| Neighbors rally to fight proposed waste-burner (1992) | 371 | |
| United States to weigh blacks' complaints about pollution (1993) | 374 | |
| Presidential Executive Order 12898 - environmental justice | 377 | |
| Study attacks "environmental justice" (1994) | 380 | |
| New York Seminarian promotes environmental justice in Africa (1996) | 382 |
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Charles Guy
reviewed A Hammer in Their Hands: A Documentary History of Technology and the African-American Experience on December 10, 2012 A Hammer in Their Hands: A Documentary History of Technology and the African-American Experience
Really enjoyed this book, learn a great deal about the connection of black Muslims from West and North Africa to North America to South America. Deals with the issue objectively and discusses the implications slavery has had on the people from these regions.
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