Africa in America
Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831
Author: Michael Mullin Series: Blacks in the New World
Mullin offers new and definitive information about how Africans met and often overcame the challenges and deprivations of their new lives through religion, family life, and economic strategies.
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Mullin offers new and definitive information about how Africans met and often overcame the challenges and deprivations of their new lives through religion, family life, and economic strategies.
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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.
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“Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Award, 1993. Winner of the Elliott Rudwick Award, 1991.”
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
About the Author
Michael Mullin is a professor of history at California State University and the author of Flight and Rebellion: Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Virginia.
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's met and often overcame the challenges and deprivations of their new lives through religion, family life, and economic strategies. ''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
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