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.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
|---|
| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168015744911 | 305.896073075 G633E 1998 | 1 |