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Exchanging our country marks : the transformation of African identities in the colonial and antebellum South /

"After discussing specific ethnic groups in Africa, Gomez follows their movement to North America, where they tended to be amassd in recognizable concentrations within individual colonies."

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gomez, Michael A., 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER ONE: Vesey's Challenge
  • CHAPTER TWO: Time and Space
  • CHAPTER THREE: Warriors, Charms, and Loas: Senegambia and the Bight of Benin
  • CHAPTER FOUR: Prayin' on duh Bead: Islam in Early America
  • CHAPTER FIVE: Societies and Stools: Sierra Leone and the Akan
  • CHAPTER SIX: I Seen Folks Disappeah: The Igbo and West Central Africa
  • CHAPTER SEVEN: Talking Half African: Middle Passage, Seasoning, and Language
  • CHAPTER EIGHT: Tad's Query: Ethnicity and Class in African America
  • CHAPTER NINE: Turning Down the Pot: Christianity and the African-Based CommunityCHAPTER TEN: The Least of These
  • Appendix: Census Estimates for 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, and 1830
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
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