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African Americans in the Colonial Era (4th Ed.)
From African Origins through the American Revolution
The American History Series
Author: Wright Donald R.
Language: EnglishSubject for African Americans in the Colonial Era:
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African Americans in colonial times; history of African Americans; history of Atlantic African Americans; American Revolution and African Americans; early African American and economics; early African Americans society; early African Americans culture; Origins of slavery in Atlantic states; race-based prejudice in Atlantic states; mix of Atlantic states cultures; African Americans and politics in Colonial times; effects of slavery in Atlantic states; slavery in colonial times; ? Atlantic slave trade; the slaving voyage; Africans in America; Religion of African Americans in Colonial times; Folk culture and African Americans; African Americans in the Colonial Era: ?Changing African-American Society; Liberty and African Americans; From African Origins through the American; Donald Wright
312 p. · 14x21.3 cm · Paperback
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What are the origins of slavery and race-based prejudice in the mainland American colonies? How did the Atlantic slave trade operate to supply African labor to colonial America? How did African-American culture form and evolve? How did the American Revolution affect men and women of African descent?
Previous editions of this work depicted African-Americans in the American mainland colonies as their contemporaries saw them: as persons from one of the four continents who interacted economically, socially, and politically in a vast, complex Atlantic world. It showed how the society that resulted in colonial America reflected the mix of Atlantic cultures and that a group of these people eventually used European ideas to support creation of a favorable situation for those largely of European descent, omitting Africans, who constituted their primary labor force.
In this fourth edition of African Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins through the American Revolution, acclaimed scholar Donald R. Wright offers new interpretations to provide a clear understanding of the Atlantic slave trade and the nature of the early African-American experience. This revised edition incorporates the latest data, a fresh Atlantic perspective, and an updated bibliographical essay to thoroughly explore African-Americans? African origins, their experience crossing the Atlantic, and their existence in colonial America in a broadened, more nuanced way.
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
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.