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Working the Diaspora : the Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850.
From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced migration stripped slaves of their liberty, it failed to destroy many of their cultural practices, which came with Africans to the New World. In Worki...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Culture, labor, history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced migration stripped slaves of their liberty, it failed to destroy many of their cultural practices, which came with Africans to the New World. In Working the Diaspora, Frederick Knight examines work cultures on both sides of the Atlantic, from West and West Central Africa to British North America and the Caribbean. Knight demonstrates that the knowledge that Africans carried across the Atlantic shaped Anglo-American agricultural development and m. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (242 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814749128 0814749127 |