Working the Diaspora : : The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850 / / Frederick C. Knight.
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 Worki...
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