African Founders
How Enslaved People Expanded American Freedom
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
Format: Book
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description: pages cm
"A brilliant synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their descendants influenced the culture, commerce, and laws of the early United States"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Northern regions, New England -- Puritan purposes, Akan ethics, American values -- Hudson Valley -- Dutch capitalists, Angolan entrepreneurs, American strivers -- Delaware Valley -- Quaker founders, Guinea achievers, American reformers -- Southern regions, Chesapeake, Virginia and Maryland -- English masters, West African rebels, American leaders -- Coastal Carolina and Georgia -- Barbadian planters, Gullah-Geechee cultures, American roots -- Louisiana, Mississippi, and the Gulf Coast -- French, Spanish & Anglo rulers; Bamana, Benin & Congo clusters; American Pluralism -- Frontier regions, Western frontiers : free range slaves -- Fulani herders, Texas cowboys, American mustangers -- Maritime frontiers : saltwater slaves -- West African boatmen, Atlantic seamen, American mariners -- Southern frontiers : warrior slaves -- Angolan soldiers, Afro-Seminole warriors, U.S. Seminole-Negro scouts.
Subjects:
African Americans -- History.
Africans -- United States -- History.
Enslaved persons -- United States -- History.
Freed persons -- United States.
Slavery -- United States -- History.
United States -- Civilization -- African American influences.
African Americans -- History.
Africans -- United States -- History.
Enslaved persons -- United States -- History.
Freed persons -- United States.
Slavery -- United States -- History.
United States -- Civilization -- African American influences.
ISBN:
1982145099
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY North Am. US AF AM Slavery Fis | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY North Am. US AF AM Slavery Fis | Northeast Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY North Am. US AF AM Slavery Fis | Northeast Indoors | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/31/2024) |
HISTORY North Am. US AF AM Slavery Fis | Sandhills Indoors | Second Level Display, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.