African Americans in the Colonial Era
Harlan Davidson Inc (Verlag)
978-0-88295-274-1 (ISBN)
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This third edition views African Americans in the British North-American mainland colonies more as their contemporaries did: as persons from one of the four continents who interacted economically, socially, and politically over a period of 180 years in a vast, vibrant, complex Atlantic world. It shows how the mainland North-American society that resulted from these interactions reflected the mix of Atlantic cultures and how the republic that a group of these people eventually constructed used European ideas to support creation of a favorable situation for those in control, persons largely of European descent. The African and African-American men and women, whose forebears had added greatly to the region s economic and cultural viability, found themselves in 1789 with the least benefit from the nation they helped bring into existence. Of special value is the book s bibliographical essay, an expansion and updating of earlier versions that led the historian Ira Berlin to label Wright the historiographer of slavery in the early period.
Donald R. Wright is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History, Emeritus, at SUNY-Cortland. He is the author of African American in the Early Republic, 1789 1831 (1993) in the American History Series and The World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A History of Globalization in Niumi, The Gambia, 3rd ed. (2010), and co-author of The Atlantic World: A History (2007). His degrees are from DePauw University and Indiana University. He has received fellowships from Fullbright-Hays and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and in 2003 he was Scholar-in-Residence at the Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy. He lives in Homer, New York.
Preface to the Third Edition and Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE: Atlantic Origins 9 Atlantic Africa 13 The Atlantic Trade 25 The Slaving Voyage 46 CHAPTER TWO: Development of Slavery in Mainland North America 62 The Chesapeake 66 The Low Country 80 The Lower Mississippi 92 New England and the Middle Colonies 97 Slavery and Racial Prejudice 106 CHAPTER THREE: African-American Culture 111 African in America 113 Demography, Community, and Culture 118 The Daily Toil 126 Family 138 Religion 143 Folk Culture 148 Whites and Blacks, Men and Women, Humanity and Inhumanity 158 Resistance, Escape, and Rebellion 162 CHAPTER FOUR: The Revolutionary Era 173 Slavery and Ideology 175 Freedom for Some 181 Changing African-American Society 192 The Foundations of Caste 211 Securing the Blessings of Liberty 215 Epilogue 219 Bibliographical Essay 223 Index 269 Maps: Africa in the Era of the Atlantic Trade, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 17 Colonies of the North American Mainland in the Eighteenth Century 65
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.1.2013 |
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Reihe/Serie | The American History Series |
Zusatzinfo | Illustrations, map |
Verlagsort | Wheeling IL |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 136 x 202 mm |
Gewicht | 322 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-88295-274-9 / 0882952749 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-88295-274-1 / 9780882952741 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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