Keywords:
Slave labor History
;
Blacks History
;
Agriculture History
;
Agricultural laborers History
;
Africans History
;
African diaspora
;
Agricultural laborers-America-History
;
Africans-America-History
;
Black people-America-History
;
Agriculture-America-History
;
Slave labor-America-History
;
Agriculture - America - History
;
Africans ; America ; History
;
Blacks ; America ; History
;
Slave labor ; America ; History
;
African diaspora
;
Agricultural laborers ; America ; History
;
Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced migration stripped slaves of their liberty, it failed to destroy many of their cultural practices, which came with Africans to the New World. In Working the Diaspora , Frederick Knight examines work cultures on both sides of the Atlantic, from West and West Central Africa to British North America and the Caribbean. Knight demonstrates that the knowledge that Africans carried across the Atlantic shaped Anglo-American agricultural development and m
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 229 p)
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ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
081474818X
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9780814748183
Series Statement:
Culture, Labor, History Series
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DDC:
331.11/7340970903
Language:
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Material Life in West and West Central Africa, 1650-1800; 2 Seeds of Change: African Agricultural Workers in the Anglo-American Colonies; 3 Cultivating Knowledge: African Tobacco and Cotton Workers in Colonial British America; 4 In an Ocean of Blue: West African Indigo Workers in the Atlantic World to 1800; 5 Slave Artisans: Black Nonagricultural Workers in Colonial America and the Antebellum South; 6 Natural Worship: Slavery, the Environment, and Black Consciousness in the Antebellum South; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K
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LM; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; About the Author
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
