Exchanging our country marks : the transformation of African identities in the colonial and antebellum South /
Gomez, Michael A., 1955-
Exchanging our country marks : the transformation of African identities in the colonial and antebellum South / Michael A. Gomez. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1998. - xi, 370 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Vesey's Challenge Time and Space Warriors, Charms, and Loas: Senegambia and the Bight of Benin Prayin' on duh Bead: Islam in Early America Societies and Stools: Sierra Leone and the Akan I Seen Folks Disappeah: The Igbo and West Central Africa Talking Half African: Middle Passage, Seasoning, and Language Tad's Query: Ethnicity and Class in African America Turning Down the Pot: Christianity and the African-Based Community The Least of These Census Estimates for 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, and 1830 Chapter 1. 1 -- Chapter 2. 17 -- Chapter 3. 38 -- Chapter 4. 59 -- Chapter 5. 88 -- Chapter 6. 114 -- Chapter 7. 154 -- Chapter 8. 186 -- Chapter 9. 244 -- Chapter 10. 291 -- Appendix 293.
"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."
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African Americans--Race identity--Southern States.
Slaves--Social life and customs.--Southern States
Southern States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Southern States--History--1775-1865.
History.
E185.18 / .G18 1998
305.896/073075
Exchanging our country marks : the transformation of African identities in the colonial and antebellum South / Michael A. Gomez. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1998. - xi, 370 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Vesey's Challenge Time and Space Warriors, Charms, and Loas: Senegambia and the Bight of Benin Prayin' on duh Bead: Islam in Early America Societies and Stools: Sierra Leone and the Akan I Seen Folks Disappeah: The Igbo and West Central Africa Talking Half African: Middle Passage, Seasoning, and Language Tad's Query: Ethnicity and Class in African America Turning Down the Pot: Christianity and the African-Based Community The Least of These Census Estimates for 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, and 1830 Chapter 1. 1 -- Chapter 2. 17 -- Chapter 3. 38 -- Chapter 4. 59 -- Chapter 5. 88 -- Chapter 6. 114 -- Chapter 7. 154 -- Chapter 8. 186 -- Chapter 9. 244 -- Chapter 10. 291 -- Appendix 293.
"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."
0807823872 9780807823873 0807846945 9780807846940 0807861715 9780807861714
97021476
African Americans--Race identity--Southern States.
Slaves--Social life and customs.--Southern States
Southern States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Southern States--History--1775-1865.
History.
E185.18 / .G18 1998
305.896/073075