Sparks, Randy J.,

Africans in the old South : mapping exceptional lives across the Atlantic world / Randy J. Sparks. - 1 online resource (204 pages) : maps

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.

9780674970137 0674970136

10.4159/9780674970137 doi

22573/ctvjf86gf JSTOR

2015030866


1700-1899


African Americans--Southern States--Biography.
Blacks--Atlantic Ocean Region--Biography.
Slaves--Southern States--Biography.
Slave trade--History.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
HISTORY--State & Local--South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)--United States
African Americans.
Blacks.
Slave trade.
Slaves.


Southern States--History--18th century.
Southern States--History--19th century.
Atlantic Ocean Region.
Southern States.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
History.

E185.615 / .S695 2016eb

305.896/073075