Exchanging our country marks : the transformation of African identities in the colonial and antebellum South /

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Author / Creator:	Gomez, Michael A., 1955- author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 370 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	African Americans -- Race identity -- Southern States. Slaves -- Southern States -- Social life and customs. African Americans -- Race identity. Slaves -- Social life and customs. Southern States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865. Southern States. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11109805

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ISBN:	0807861715 9780807861714 0807823872 0807846945 9780807823873 9780807846940
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	"After discussing specific ethnic groups in Africa, Gomez follows their movement to North America, where they tended to be amassd in recognizable concentrations within individual colonies."
Other form:	Print version: Gomez, Michael Angelo, 1955- Exchanging our country marks. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1998 0807823872

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Contents
Acknowledgments
CHAPTER ONE: Vesey's Challenge
CHAPTER TWO: Time and Space
CHAPTER THREE: Warriors, Charms, and Loas: Senegambia and the Bight of Benin
CHAPTER FOUR: Prayin' on duh Bead: Islam in Early America
CHAPTER FIVE: Societies and Stools: Sierra Leone and the Akan
CHAPTER SIX: I Seen Folks Disappeah: The Igbo and West Central Africa
CHAPTER SEVEN: Talking Half African: Middle Passage, Seasoning, and Language
CHAPTER EIGHT: Tad's Query: Ethnicity and Class in African America
CHAPTER NINE: Turning Down the Pot: Christianity and the African-Based CommunityCHAPTER TEN: The Least of These
Appendix: Census Estimates for 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, and 1830
Notes
Selected Bibliography
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