Africans in the Old South : : Mapping Exceptional Lives across the Atlantic World / / Randy J. Sparks.
The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history, yet most of its stories are lost. Randy Sparks examines the few remaining reconstructed experiences of West Africans who lived in the South between 1740 and 1860. Their stories highlight the diversity of struggles that confronted...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 15 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Introduction
- 1. Anglo- African Women Join a Plantation Society
- 2. Finding a Transatlantic Middle Ground between Black and White
- 3. From Manservant to Abolitionist and Physician
- 4. Navigating a Way to Freedom
- 5. Unidentified Africans Seek British Protection
- 6. Caught in the Illegal Slave Trade
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index