Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum SouthUniv of North Carolina Press, 1998 - 370 pages 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 Afr |
Table des matières
Veseys Challenge | 1 |
Time and Space | 17 |
Warriors Charms and Loas Senegambia and the Bight of Benin | 38 |
Prayin on duh Bead Islam in Early America | 59 |
Societies and Stools Sierra Leone and the Akan | 88 |
I Seen Folks Disappeah The Igbo and West Central Africa | 114 |
Talking Half African Middle Passage Seasoning and Language | 154 |
Tads Query Ethnicity and Class in African America | 186 |
Turning Down the Pot Christianity and the AfricanBased Community | 244 |
The Least of These | 291 |
Census Estimates for 1790 1800 1810 1820 and 1830 | 293 |
Notes | 297 |
Selected Bibliography | 349 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
African American African descent African Muslims African religions African-based community African-born Akan American Slave Angola antebellum Asante Atlantic Slave Trade Bambara Baptist beliefs Bight of Benin Bight of Biafra born captives Charleston Christianity church Congo cultural Curtin descendants eighteenth century English enslaved ethnicity European example export fact Florida Fulbe Futa Gambia Gazette Georgia Gold Coast groups Gullah Herskovits History hoodoo Ibid identity Igbo important Islam Kingdom of Kongo Kongo language lived London Lovejoy Midlo Hall Mississippi Muslim native Africans Negro nigger nineteenth century non-Muslim North America Orleans percent period plantation planters political Poro race Rawick Rawley reference region religious River Runaway Slave Advertisements Salih Bilali Savannah Senegal Senegambia shout Sierra Leone Sierra Leonians slave community slave population slaveholders Slavery social society South Carolina spirit tion tradition Transatlantic Slave Trade Virginia West Africa West Central Africa Windley Wolof women World York