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Africans in the old South : mapping exceptional lives across the Atlantic world / Randy J. Sparks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sparks, Randy J., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Southern States--Biography.
- African Americans.
- Black people--Atlantic Ocean Region--Biography.
- Black people.
- Enslaved persons--Southern States--Biography.
- Enslaved persons.
- Slave trade--History.
- Slave trade.
- Southern States--History--18th century.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history, yet most of its stories are lost. Randy Sparks examines the few remaining reconstructed experiences of West Africans who lived in the South between 1740 and 1860. Their stories highlight the diversity of struggles that confronted every African who arrived on American shores.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Introduction
- 1. Anglo- African Women Join a Plantation Society
- 2. Finding a Transatlantic Middle Ground between Black and White
- 3. From Manservant to Abolitionist and Physician
- 4. Navigating a Way to Freedom
- 5. Unidentified Africans Seek British Protection
- 6. Caught in the Illegal Slave Trade
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780674970151
- 0674970152
- 9780674970137
- 0674970136
- OCLC:
- 945552827
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