Exchanging our country marks : the transformation of African identities in the colonial and antebellum South
by
 
Gomez, Michael A., 1955-

Title
Exchanging our country marks : the transformation of African identities in the colonial and antebellum South

Author
Gomez, Michael A., 1955-

ISBN
9780807823873
 
9780807846940

Personal Author
Gomez, Michael A., 1955-

Publication Information
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Physical Description
xi, 370 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Contents
Ch. 1. Vesey's Challenge -- Ch. 2. Time and Space -- Ch. 3. Warriors, Charms, and Loas: Senegambia and the Bight of Benin -- Ch. 4. Prayin' on duh Bead: Islam in Early America -- Ch. 5. Societies and Stools: Sierra Leone and the Akan -- Ch. 6. I Seen Folks Disappeah: The Igbo and West Central Africa -- Ch. 7. Talking Half African: Middle Passage, Seasoning, and Language -- Ch. 8. Tad's Query: Ethnicity and Class in African America -- Ch. 9. Turning Down the Pot: Christianity and the African-Based Community -- Ch. 10. The Least of These -- App. Census Estimates for 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, and 1830.

Subject Term
African Americans -- Southern States -- Ethnic identity.
 
African Americans -- Race identity -- Southern States.
 
Slaves -- Southern States -- Social life and customs.

Geographic Term
Southern States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
 
Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865.


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