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.
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Slavery -- America -- History.
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Enslaved persons -- America -- History.
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ISBN |
0807829730 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780807829738 cloth alkaline paper |
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