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Africans in the old South : mapping exceptional lives across the Atlantic world / Randy J. Sparks.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London England : Harvard University Press, 2016Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (204 pages) : mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674970137
  • 0674970136
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Africans in the old South.DDC classification:
  • 305.896/073075 23
LOC classification:
  • E185.615 .S695 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Anglo-African women join a plantation society -- Finding a transatlantic middle ground between Black and White -- From manservant to abolitionist and physician -- Navigating a way to freedom -- Unidentified Africans seek British protection -- Caught in the illegal slave trade.
Summary: "The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history, yet most of its stories are lost. Randy Sparks examines the few remaining reconstructed experiences of West Africans who lived in the South between 1740 and 1860. Their stories highlight the diversity of struggles that confronted every African who arrived on American shores"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Anglo-African women join a plantation society -- Finding a transatlantic middle ground between Black and White -- From manservant to abolitionist and physician -- Navigating a way to freedom -- Unidentified Africans seek British protection -- Caught in the illegal slave trade.

"The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history, yet most of its stories are lost. Randy Sparks examines the few remaining reconstructed experiences of West Africans who lived in the South between 1740 and 1860. Their stories highlight the diversity of struggles that confronted every African who arrived on American shores"--Provided by publisher.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed August 5, 2019).

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