A Companion to African American History [Hardcover]

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• Analyzes the major sources and the most influential books and articles in the field
  
• Includes discussions of globalization, region, migration, gender, class and social forces that make up the broad cultural fabric of African American history

Notes on the Contributors x

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1
Alton Hornsby, Jr

Part I Africa and Other Roots 3

1 Life and Work in West Africa 5
Augustine Konneh

2 Africans in Europe prior to the Atlantic Slave Trade 23
Maghan Keita

3 The African and European Slave Trades 48
Walter C. Rucker

4 Africans in the Caribbean and Latin America: The Post-Emancipation Diaspora 67
Frederick D. Opie

Part II Africans in Early North America 87

5 Ethnicity, Nationality, and Race in Colonial America 89
Jeffrey Elton Anderson

6 Not Chattel, Not Free: Quasi-Free Blacks in the Colonial Era 105
Antonio F. Holland and Debra Foster Greene

7 Africans and Native Americans 121
Tiya Miles and Barbara Krauthamer

Part III In the House of Bondage 141

8 Origins and Institutionalization of Amerilã3