Africa in America : slave acculturation and resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831
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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
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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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