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

ISBN-13: 9781119133872 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 312 str.

Donald R. Wright

Spis treści

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Chapter One: Atlantic Origins 7

Atlantic Africa 11

The Atlantic Trade 23

The Slaving Voyage 47

Chapter Two: Development of Slavery in Mainland North America 64

The Chesapeake  8

The Low Country 82

The Lower Mississippi 96

New England and the Middle Colonies 101

Slavery and Racial Prejudice 110

Chapter Three: African–American Culture 117

Africans in America 119

Demography, Community, and Culture 124

The Daily Toil 133

Family 146

Religion 151

Folk Culture 157

Whites and Blacks, Men and Women, Humanity and Inhumanity 169

Resistance, Escape, Rebellion, and Suicide 174

Chapter Four: The Revolutionary Era 185

Slavery and Ideology 187

Freedom for Some 195

Changing African–American Society 206

The Foundations of Caste 227

Securing the Blessings of Liberty 232

Epilogue 236

Bibliographical Essay 240

Index 289

O autorze

DONALD R. WRIGHT is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History, Emeritus, at SUNY–Cortland, USA. In 2003 he was Scholar–in–Residence at the Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy.  He is the author of African Americans in the Early Republic, 1789 1831 and The World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A History of Globalization in Niumi, The Gambia, 3rd ed., and is co–author of The Atlantic World: A History. He lives in Beaufort, South Carolina.