Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660: The First Generation of African Americans in North America and the Caribbean, 1619-1660 Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660: The First Generation of African Americans in North America and the Caribbean, 1619-1660 Book

This book establishes Central Africa as the origin of most Africans brought to English and Dutch American colonies in North America, the Caribbean, and South America before 1660. It reveals that Central Africans were frequently possessors of an Atlantic Creole culture and places the movement of slaves and creation of the colonies within an Atlantic historical framework.Read More

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    This book shows that the first generation of Africans taken to English and Dutch colonies before 1660 were captured by pirates from these countries from slave ships coming from Kongo and Angola. This region had embraced Christianity and elements of Western culture, such as names and some material culture, the result of a long period of diplomatic, political, and military interaction with the Portuguese. This background gave them an important role in shaping the way slavery, racism, and African-American culture would develop in English and Dutch colonies throughout the Western Hemisphere.

  • 0521770653
  • 9780521770651
  • Linda M. Heywood, John K. Thornton
  • 10 September 2007
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 384
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