Research Catalog

Title

Trans-Atlantic dimensions of ethnicity in the African diaspora / edited by Paul E. Lovejoy and David V. Trotman.

Publication

London ; New York : Continuum, [2003]

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Additional Authors

• Lovejoy, Paul E.
• Trotman, David Vincent, 1946-

Description

x, 289 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Series Statement

The Black Atlantic

Uniform Title

Black Atlantic.

Subject

• Africans > America > Ethnic identity
• African Americans > Race identity
• African diaspora
• Slavery > Social aspects > History. > America
• Africans > America > Social conditions
• African Americans > Social conditions > To 1964
• Enslaved persons > America > Social conditions
• America > Ethnic relations
• America > Relations > Africa
• Africa > Relations > America

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-284) and index.

Contents

Ethnic designations of the slave trade and the reconstruction of the history of trans-Atlantic slavery / Paul E. Lovejoy -- The story of Nbena, 1817-20: unlawful enslavement and the concept of 'original freedom' in Angola / José C. Curto -- African ethnicities and the meaning of 'Mina' / Gwendolyn Midlo Hall -- A quality of anguish: the Igbo response to enslavement in the Americas / Michael A. Gomez -- 'I, Francisco Castañeda, Negro Esclavo Caravali': Caravali ethnicity in colonial New Granada / Renée Soulodre-La France -- On the frontiers of the African Diaspora in Central America: the African origins of San Fernando de Omoa / Rina Cáceres Gómez -- Devils or sorcerers, Muslims or studs: Manding in the Americas / Sylviane Anna Diouf -- The reconstruction of ethnicity in Bahia: the case of the Nagô in the nineteenth century / Maria Inês Côrtes de Oliveira -- Afro-Brazilian communities of the Bight of Benin in the nineteenth century / Elisée Soumonni -- Ethnicity, colour and gender in the experiences of enslaved women on non-sugar properties in Jamaica / Verene A. Shepherd -- Africanizing and Creolizng the plantation frontier of Trinidad, 1787-1838 / David V. Trotman -- Ethnic politics among Africans in nineteenth-century Bahia / João José Reis.

Call Number

Sc E 05-259

ISBN

• 0826449077
• 9780826449078
• 0826449085
• 9780826449085

LCCN

2002067342

OCLC

49627733

Title

Trans-Atlantic dimensions of ethnicity in the African diaspora / edited by Paul E. Lovejoy and David V. Trotman.

Publisher

London ; New York : Continuum, [2003]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Black Atlantic

Black Atlantic.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-284) and index.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Added Author

Lovejoy, Paul E., editor.

Trotman, David Vincent, 1946- editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 05-259

JFE 04-6409