African Americans in the Colonial Era From African Origins Through the American Revolution

Name: African Americans in the Colonial Era From African Origins Through the American Revolution
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ISBN: 9780882952741

ISBN-10: 0882952749

ISBN-13: 9780882952741

Edition: 3rd 2010

Authors: Donald R. Wright

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Over recent decades few topics of American history have been subject to greater attention and more thorough revision than African Americans in colonial times. Acclaimed works by leading scholars, relying on new bodies of evidence and writing from a fresh, Atlantic perspective, have provided a broadened, more nuanced view of the topic. In this third edition of one of the most popular books in our American History Series, Donald Wright works new interpretations into a narrative that provides a clear understanding of the scope and nature of the early African-American experience. Included are discussions of African Americans’ African origins; the Atlantic slave trade, based on the latest data…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/17/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 279
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.00" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.704



Preface to the Third Edition and Acknowledgments


Introduction



Atlantic Origins


Atlantic Africa


The Atlantic Trade


The Slaving Voyage



Development of Slavery in Mainland North America


The Chesapeake


The Low Country


The Lower Mississippi


New England and the Middle Colonies


Slavery and Racial Prejudice



African-American Culture


African in America


Demography, Community, and Culture


The Daily Toil


Family


Religion


Folk Culture


Whites and Blacks, Men and Women, Humanity and Inhumanity


Resistance, Escape, and Rebellion



The Revolutionary Era


Slavery and Ideology


Freedom for Some


Changing African-American Society


The Foundations of Caste


Securing the Blessings of Liberty


Epilogue


Bibliographical Essay


Index


Maps:


Africa in the Era of the Atlantic Trade, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries


Colonies of the North American Mainland in the Eighteenth Century