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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africans--America--Ethnic identity.

Africans.

Slavery--America--History.

Slavery.

Enslaved persons--America--History.

Enslaved persons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Drawing on a wide range of materials in four languages as well as on her lifetime study of slave groups in the New World, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall explores the persistence of African ethnic identities among the enslaved over four hundred years of the Atlantic slave trade. Hall traces the linguistic, economic, and cultural ties shared by large numbers of enslaved Africans, showing that despite the fragmentation of the diaspora many ethnic groups retained eno

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-212) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908707-6-6

979-88-9313-110-9

1-4696-0518-X

0-8078-7686-0

OCLC:

609852639