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."