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Exchanging our country marks : the transformation of African identities in the colonial and antebellum South / Michael A. Gomez.
LIBRA E185.18 .G18 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gomez, Michael A., 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Race identity--Southern States.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Race identity.
- Enslaved persons.
- Manners and customs.
- Southern States.
- Enslaved persons--Southern States--Social life and customs.
- Southern States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- History.
- Southern States--History--1775-1865.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 370 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- Recovers the diverse ethnic roots of Africans brought into slavery in the American South by identifying concrete links between African populations and their North American progeny.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. Vesey's Challenge 1
- Chapter 2. Time and Space 17
- Chapter 3. Warriors, Charms, and Loas: Senegambia and the Bight of Benin 38
- Chapter 4. Prayin' on duh Bead: Islam in Early America 59
- Chapter 5. Societies and Stools: Sierra Leone and the Akan 88
- Chapter 6. I Seen Folks Disappeah: The Igbo and West Central Africa 114
- Chapter 7. Talking Half African: Middle Passage, Seasoning, and Language 154
- Chapter 8. Tad's Query: Ethnicity and Class in African America 186
- Chapter 9. Turning Down the Pot: Christianity and the African-Based Community 244
- Chapter 10. The Least of These 291
- Appendix Census Estimates for 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, and 1830 293.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-357) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807823872
- 0807846945
- OCLC:
- 36969764
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