Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South
The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comprehensive study, Michael Gomez establishes tangible links between the African American community and its African origins and traces the process by which African populations exchanged their distinct ethnic identities for one
defined primarily by the conception of race. He examines transformations in the politics, social structures, and religions of slave populations through 1830, by which time the contours of a new African American identity had begun to emerge.
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Contents
Veseys Challenge
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1 |
Time and Space
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17 |
Warriors Charms and Loas Senegambia and the Bight of Benin
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38 |
Prayin on duh Bead Islam in Early America
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59 |
Societies and Stools Sierra Leone and the Akan
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88 |
I Seen Folks Disappeah The Igbo and West Central Africa
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114 |
Talking Half African Middle Passage Seasoning and Language
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154 |
Tads Query Ethnicity and Class in African America
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186 |
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Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in ... Michael Angelo Gomez No preview available - 1998 |