Gold Coast diasporas : identity, culture, and power /
"Although they came from distinct polities and peoples who spoke different languages, slaves from the African Gold Coast were collectively identified by Europeans as 'Coromantee' or 'Mina.' Why these ethnic labels were embraced and how they were utilized by enslaved Africans...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Blacks in the diaspora.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part One: Social Life and Death
- Gold Coast Backgrounds
- Making the Gold Coast Diaspora
- Slavery, Ethnogenesis, and Social Resurrection
- Part Two: Social Resurrection and Empowerment
- State, Governance, and War
- Obeah, Oaths, and Ancestral Spirits
- Women, Regeneration, and Power
- Postscript.