Africa in America : slave acculturation and resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831
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Bibliographic Information
Africa in America : slave acculturation and resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831
(Blacks in the New World)
University of Illinois Press, c1992
- : pbk
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  Aomori
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  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-403) and index
First paperback edition, 1994
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Extensive archival and anecdotal sources support Michael Mullin's description of slavery as it was practiced in tidewater Virginia, on the rice coast of the Carolinas, and in Jamaica and Barbados. Drawing upon case histories, Mullin offers new and definitive information about how African people met and often overcame the challenges and deprivations of their new lives through religion, family life, and economic strategies.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
I THE UNSEASONED
1 Naming Africans 13
2 Africans Name Themselves 34
3 The Blood Oath, Play, and Ancestors 62
II PLANTATION SLAVES
4 Plantations: Case Studies 77
5 "Scientific" Planters: The Ideology of Industrial Regimentation in Mature Slave Societies 115
6 The Slaves' Economic Strategies: Food, Markets, and Property 126
7 Family 159
8 Plantation Religion and Resistance 174
III THE ASSIMILATEDS
9 Slave Resistance in an Era of War and Revolution, 1768-1805 215
10 Mission Christianity and Preemancipation Rebellion 241
11 Epilogue: Africa in America 268
Appendixes 281
Notes 309
Bibliography 385
Index 405
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