Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660 /.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York Cambridge University Press 2007Description: xiii, 370 p. ill., mapsContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780521770651 (hardback)
- 9780521779227 (pbk.)
- African Americans -- History -- 17th century
- Africans -- History -- 17th century -- America
- Blacks -- History -- 17th century -- America
- Community life -- History -- 17th century -- America
- Creoles -- History -- 17th century -- America
- Slavery -- History -- 17th century -- America
- America -- Race relations -- History -- 17th century
- America -- Social conditions -- 17th century
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century
- Netherlands -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| book | Knowledge Management & Collection Management | 121.757 Coll | Available | 8303417-10 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Privateering, colonial expansion, and the African presence in early Anglo-Dutch settlements -- The Portuguese, Kongo, and Ndongo and the origins of Atlantic-Creole culture to 1607 -- Wars, civil unrest and the dynamics of enslavement in West Central Africa, 1607--1660 -- Atlantic Creole culture : patterns of transformation and adaptations, 1607-60 -- Shifting status and the foundation of African American communities : Atlantic Creoles in the early Anglo-Dutch colonies -- Becoming slaves : Atlantic Creoles and the defining of status figures.