Gomez, Michael A., 1955-

Exchanging our country marks : the transformation of African identities in the colonial and antebellum South / Michael A. Gomez. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1998. - 1 online resource (xi, 370 pages) : illustrations, maps -

Includes bibliographical references and index.

""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 Community""""CHAPTER TEN: The Least of These""; ""Appendix: Census Estimates for 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, and 1830""; ""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

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"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."


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1600-1865


African Americans--Race identity--Southern States.
Slaves--Social life and customs.--Southern States
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Ethnic Studies--African American Studies.
African Americans--Race identity.
Slaves--Social life and customs.
Geschichte
Ethnische Identit�at
Gesellschaft
Etnisch bewustzijn.
Geschichte 1600-1865.
Subsaharan Africa.
United States.
African Americans.
ethnicity.
slaves.
slavery.


Southern States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Southern States--History--1775-1865.
Southern States.
Afrika
USA--S�udstaaten
Schwarze.
USA.


Electronic books.
History.

E185.18 / .G18 1998eb

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