TY - BOOK AU - Gomez,Michael A. TI - Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identity in the Colonial and Antebellum South SN - 9780807861714 AV - E185.18 -- .G18 1998eb U1 - 305.896/073075 PY - 1997/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - African Americans -- Southern States -- Ethnic identity KW - African Americans -- Race identity -- Southern States KW - Slaves -- Southern States -- Social life and customs KW - Southern States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 KW - Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865 KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE: Vesey's Challenge -- CHAPTER TWO: Time and Space -- CHAPTER THREE: Warriors, Charms, and Loas: Senegambia and the Bight of Benin -- CHAPTER FOUR: Prayin' on duh Bead: Islam in Early America -- CHAPTER FIVE: Societies and Stools: Sierra Leone and the Akan -- CHAPTER SIX: I Seen Folks Disappeah: The Igbo and West Central Africa -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Talking Half African: Middle Passage, Seasoning, and Language -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Tad's Query: Ethnicity and Class in African America -- CHAPTER NINE: Turning Down the Pot: Christianity and the African-Based Community -- CHAPTER TEN: The Least of These -- Appendix: Census Estimates for 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, and 1830 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uls/detail.action?docID=3039488 ER -