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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1998.Description: xi, 370 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0807823872
  • 9780807823873
  • 0807846945
  • 9780807846940
  • 0807861715
  • 9780807861714
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.896/073075 21
LOC classification:
  • E185.18 .G18 1998
Other classification:
  • 15.80
  • 15.85
  • HD 475
  • HR 1728
  • MS 3530
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.
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."
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Print book for loan Krauth Memorial Branch Philadelphia General Collection E185.18 .G18 1998 1 Available 31794003187557
Print book for loan Wentz Memorial Branch Gettysburg General Collection (Lower Level) E185.18 .G18 1998 Available 31826003497873

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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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