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Africa in America: Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831
Michael Mullin
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Description for Africa in America: Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831
Paperback. Series: Blacks in the New World. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations facsimiles, maps, plan, portraits. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 570.
Extensive archival and anecdotal sources support Michael Mullin's description of slavery as it was practiced in tidewater Virginia, on the rice coast of the Carolinas, and in Jamaica and Barbados. Drawing upon case histories, Mullin offers new and definitive information about how African people met and often overcame the challenges and deprivations of their new lives through religion, family life, and economic strategies.
Extensive archival and anecdotal sources support Michael Mullin's description of slavery as it was practiced in tidewater Virginia, on the rice coast of the Carolinas, and in Jamaica and Barbados. Drawing upon case histories, Mullin offers new and definitive information about how African people met and often overcame the challenges and deprivations of their new lives through religion, family life, and economic strategies.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Series
Blacks in the New World
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252064463
SKU
V9780252064463
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About Michael Mullin
Michael Mullin is a professor of history at California State University and the author of Flight and Rebellion: Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Virginia.
Reviews for Africa in America: Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831
Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Award, 1993. Winner of the Elliott Rudwick Award, 1991. "Africa in America is more than another account of slave resistance and accommodation. It is a brilliant and provocative work of historical anthropology and a synthetic account of slavery that firmly places the subject in a comparative and long-term context. . . . ... Read more