Exchanging Our Country Marks The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South

Name: Exchanging Our Country Marks The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South
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ISBN: 9780807846940

ISBN-10: 0807846945

ISBN-13: 9780807846940

Edition: 1998

Authors: Michael A. Gomez

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The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comprehensive study, Michael Gomez establishes tangible links between the African American community and its African origins and traces the process by which African populations exchanged their distinct ethnic identities for one defined primarily by the conception of race. He examines transformations in the politics, social structures, and religions of slave populations through 1830, by which time the contours of a new African American identity had begun to emerge. After discussing specific ethnic groups in Africa, Gomez follows their movement to…

Book details

List price: $47.50
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 3/30/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Michael Gomez is professor of history and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University. He is the author of Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South.



Acknowledgments



Vesey's Challenge



Time and Space



Warriors, Charms, and Loas



Prayin' on Duh Bead Islam in Early America



Societies and Stools



I Seen Folks Disappeah the Igbo and West Central Africa



Talking Half African Middle Passage, Seasoning, and Language



Tad's Query



Turning Down the Pot Christianity and the African-Based Community



The Least of These


Appendix


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index