TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heywood,Linda M.
AU  - Thornton,John K.
TI  - Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660 /
SN  - 9780521770651 (hardback)
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Africans
KW  - America
KW  - Blacks
KW  - Community life
KW  - Creoles
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Netherlands
N1  - 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
ER  -