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Author Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo.

Title Slavery and African ethnicities in the Americas : restoring the links / by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
©2005

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.896 H176S    Check Shelf
Description xxi, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-212) and index.
Contents Gold, God, race, and slaves -- Making invisible Africans visible : coasts, ports, regions, and ethnicities -- Clustering of African ethnicities in the Americas -- Greater Senegambia/Upper Guinea -- Lower Guinea : Ivory Coast, Gold Coast, Slave Coast/Bight of Benin -- Lower Guinea : the Bight of Biafra -- Bantulands : west central Africa and Mozambique -- Conclusion : implications for culture formation in the Americas -- Appendix : Prices of slaves by ethnicity and gender in Louisiana, 1719-1820.
Summary Explores the persistence of African ethnic identity among the enslaved in North America, the Caribbean, and South America over four hundred years of the Atlantic slave trade. Investigates such issues as who profited from the Atlantic slave trade, how Africans were defined and named by slave traders, and how the enslaved identified themselves. Traces the linguistic, economic, and cultural ties shared by large numbers of enslaved Africans.
Subject Africans -- America -- Ethnic identity.
Slavery -- America -- History.
Enslaved persons -- America -- History.
ISBN 0807829730 cloth alkaline paper
9780807829738 cloth alkaline paper
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