Trans-Atlantic dimensions of ethnicity in the African diaspora /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Lovejoy, Paul E., Trotman, David Vincent, 1946-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Continuum, [2003]
Series:	Black Atlantic.
Subjects:	Africans > America > Ethnic identity. African Americans > Race identity. African diaspora. Slavery > Social aspects > America > History. Africans > America > Social conditions. African Americans > Social conditions > To 1964. Slaves > America > Social conditions. America > Ethnic relations. America > Relations > Africa. Africa > Relations > America.

Table of Contents:

Ethnic designations of the slave trade and the reconstruction of the history of trans-Atlantic slavery / Paul E. Lovejoy
The story of Nbena, 1817-20: unlawful enslavement and the concept of 'original freedom' in Angola / José C. Curto
African ethnicities and the meaning of 'Mina' / Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
A quality of anguish: the Igbo response to enslavement in the Americas / Michael A. Gomez
'I, Francisco Castañeda, Negro Esclavo Caravali': Caravali ethnicity in colonial New Granada / Renée Soulodre-La France
On the frontiers of the African Diaspora in Central America: the African origins of San Fernando de Omoa / Rina Cáceres Gómez
Devils or sorcerers, Muslims or studs: Manding in the Americas / Sylviane Anna Diouf
The reconstruction of ethnicity in Bahia: the case of the Nagô in the nineteenth century / Maria Inês Côrtes de Oliveira
Afro-Brazilian communities of the Bight of Benin in the nineteenth century / Elisée Soumonni
Ethnicity, colour and gender in the experiences of enslaved women on non-sugar properties in Jamaica / Verene A. Shepherd
Africanizing and Creolizng the plantation frontier of Trinidad, 1787-1838 / David V. Trotman
Ethnic politics among Africans in nineteenth-century Bahia / João José Reis.