Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellu
by Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South
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defined primarily by the conception of race. He examines transformations in the politics, social structures, and religions of slave populations through 1830, by which time the contours of a new African American identity had begun to emerge.
After discussing specific ethnic groups in Africa, Gomez follows their movement to North America, where they tended to be amassed in recognizable concentrations within individual colonies (and, later, states). For this reason, he argues, it is possible to identify particular ethnic cultural influences and ensuing social formations that heretofore have been considered unrecoverable. Using sources pertaining to the African continent
as well as runaway slave advertisements, ex-slave narratives, and folklore, Gomez reveals concrete and specific links between particular African populations and their North American progeny, thereby shedding new light on subsequent African American social formation.
Product Details
- University of North Carol Brand
- Mar 30, 1998 Pub Date:
- 9780807846940 ISBN-13:
- 0807846945 ISBN-10:
- 384 Pages
- English Language
- 9.2 in * 6.2 in * 0.9 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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