The African Experience in Colonial Virginia

Colita Nichols Fairfax is a professor, Honors College Senior Faculty Fellow, and inaugural Faculty Fellow with the Center for African American Public Policy at Norfolk State University. She was the co-chairman of the City of Hampton 2019 Commemorative Commission, and was a member of the State of Virginia’s American Evolution 2019 Commission’s African Arrival Committee. She is the current chairman of the State of Virginia’s Board of Historic Resources.

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Acknowledgments

Foreword

Justin E. Fairfax

Introduction

Colita Nichols Fairfax

The “Middle Passage”: The Enforced Migration of Africans Across the Atlantic

Paul E. Lovejoy

Race and Constructions of “the Negro” in Colonial Virginia

Anthony Q. Hazard, Jr.

The Other Amazing Grace from a Slave Ship

James A. Forbes, Jr.

1619: A Conceptual Worldview Marker in Africana Cultural Memory Studies

Christel N. Temple

Twin Events of Summer 1619 in Tidewater Virginia, and the Prospect for Government of, for, and by the American People: A Commentary

Peter Wallenstein

Engendering Slavery in Virginia: An Examination of Blacks’ First Century in the Old Dominion

Maureen Elgersman Lee

“Wash Me and I Shall Be Whiter Than Snow”: A Living Historiography of African Women and Christianity in the Virginia Colony

Valerie M. Joyce

What Life? Experiences of Enslaved Africans in Virginia

Colita Nichols Fairfax

Posttraumatic Slave Syndrome, the Patriarchal Nuclear Family Structure and African American Male-Female Relationships

Noelle M. St. Vil, Christopher St. Vil and Colita Nichols Fairfax

Vestiges of Slavery: The Occupational Segregation of Black Women

Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe

Building a Nation: United States Black Founders, Racial Ideology and the Crisis of Black Citizenship

LaGarrett J. King

Epilogue: E Pluribus Unum, Out of Many,

Sophia A. Nelson

About the Contributors

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