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Africa in America

Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831

Michael Mullin author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Published:1st Feb '95

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Extensive archival and anecdotal sources support Michael Mullin's description of slavery as it was practiced in tidewater Virginia, on the rice coast of the Carolinas, and in Jamaica and Barbados. Drawing upon case histories, Mullin offers new and definitive information about how African people met and often overcame the challenges and deprivations of their new lives through religion, family life, and economic strategies.

Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Award, 1993.  Winner of the Elliott Rudwick Award, 1991.

"Africa in America is more than another account of slave resistance and accommodation. It is a brilliant and provocative work of historical anthropology and a synthetic account of slavery that firmly places the subject in a comparative and long-term context. . . . Mullin's three-part chronology of resistance and rebellion is attractive in its simplicity and flexibility."--James D. Rice, Southern Historian

  • Winner of <DIV>Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Award, 1993.</DIV> 1993
  • Winner of <DIV>Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Award, 1993.  Winner of the Elliott Rudwick Award, 1991.</DIV> 1991

ISBN: 9780252064463

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm

Weight: 567g

432 pages