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    Online Resource
    New York : New York University Press
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    gbv_665131607
    Format: Online-Ressource (xi, 229 p) , ill., maps
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    ISBN: 081474818X , 9780814748183
    Series Statement: Culture, Labor, History Series
    Content: 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
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , 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 , LM; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; About the Author , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780814748183
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Working the Diaspora : The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850
    Language: English
    Subjects: History
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