TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gomez,Michael A.
TI  - Exchanging our country marks: the transformation of African identities in the colonial and antebellum South 
SN  - 0807823872
AV  - E185.18 .G18 1998
U1  - 305.896/073075 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Race identity
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - History
KW  - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
KW  - 1775-1865
N1  - 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
N2  - "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."
ER  -