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Exchanging our country marks : the transformation of African identities in the colonial and antebellum South / Michael A. Gomez.

Title: Exchanging our country marks : the transformation of African identities in the colonial and antebellum South / Michael A. Gomez.
Author: Gomez, Michael A., 1955-
Publication: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1998.

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Description

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

Summary

"After discussing specific ethnic groups in Africa, Gomez follows their movement to North America, where they tended to be amassd in recognizable concentrations within individual colonies."

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-357) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Chapter 1. Vesey's Challenge 1 -- Chapter 2. Time and Space 17 -- Chapter 3. Warriors, Charms, and Loas: Senegambia and the Bight of Benin 38 -- Chapter 4. Prayin' on duh Bead: Islam in Early America 59 -- Chapter 5. Societies and Stools: Sierra Leone and the Akan 88 -- Chapter 6. I Seen Folks Disappeah: The Igbo and West Central Africa 114 -- Chapter 7. Talking Half African: Middle Passage, Seasoning, and Language 154 -- Chapter 8. Tad's Query: Ethnicity and Class in African America 186 -- Chapter 9. Turning Down the Pot: Christianity and the African-Based Community 244 -- Chapter 10. The Least of These 291 -- Appendix Census Estimates for 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, and 1830 293.

ISBN

0807823872 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807846945 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97021476^

OCLC

36969764
SCSB-10576946

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Harvard Library