Slavery and African ethnicities in the Americas : restoring the links /
Explores the persistence of African ethnic identity among the enslaved in North America, the Caribbean, and South America over four hundred years of the Atlantic slave trade. Investigates such issues as who profited from the Atlantic slave trade, how Africans were defined and named by slave traders,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2005]
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| Series: | UNC Press law publications.
Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law. Civil rights and social justice. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Gold, God, race, and slaves
- Making invisible Africans visible: coasts, ports, regions, and ethnicities
- Clustering of African ethnicities in the Americas
- Greater Senegambia/Upper Guinea
- Lower Guinea : Ivory Coast, Gold Coast, Slave Coast/Bight of Benin
- Lower Guinea: the Bight of Biafra
- Bantulands : west central Africa and Mozambique
- Conclusion: implications for culture formation in the Americas
- Appendix. Prices of slaves by ethnicity and gender in Louisiana, 1719-1820.