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Africans in the Old South : Mapping Exceptional Lives across the Atlantic World / Randy J. Sparks.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) : 15 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674970137
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.896/073075 23
LOC classification:
  • E185.615 .S695 2016eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Introduction -- 1. Anglo- African Women Join a Plantation Society -- 2. Finding a Transatlantic Middle Ground between Black and White -- 3. From Manservant to Abolitionist and Physician -- 4. Navigating a Way to Freedom -- 5. Unidentified Africans Seek British Protection -- 6. Caught in the Illegal Slave Trade -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history, yet most of its stories are lost. Randy Sparks examines the few remaining reconstructed experiences of West Africans who lived in the South between 1740 and 1860. Their stories highlight the diversity of struggles that confronted every African who arrived on American shores.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674970137

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Introduction -- 1. Anglo- African Women Join a Plantation Society -- 2. Finding a Transatlantic Middle Ground between Black and White -- 3. From Manservant to Abolitionist and Physician -- 4. Navigating a Way to Freedom -- 5. Unidentified Africans Seek British Protection -- 6. Caught in the Illegal Slave Trade -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history, yet most of its stories are lost. Randy Sparks examines the few remaining reconstructed experiences of West Africans who lived in the South between 1740 and 1860. Their stories highlight the diversity of struggles that confronted every African who arrived on American shores.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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