LEADER 03766nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910822055903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8147-4834-1 010 $a0-8147-4912-7 010 $a1-4416-3663-3 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814749128 035 $a(CKB)2520000000007943 035 $a(EBL)865638 035 $a(OCoLC)779828157 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000344614 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11269400 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000344614 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10312829 035 $a(PQKB)10078235 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001323646 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865638 035 $a(OCoLC)559026626 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse4861 035 $a(DE-B1597)547264 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814749128 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL865638 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10356698 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000007943 100 $a20090702d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWorking the diaspora $ethe impact of African labor on the Anglo-American world, 1650-1850 /$fFrederick C. Knight 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (242 p.) 225 0 $aCulture, Labor, History ;$v8 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-6369-3 311 $a0-8147-4818-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1 Material Life in West and West Central Africa, 1650?1800 --$t2 Seeds of Change --$t3 Cultivating Knowledge --$t4 In an Ocean of Blue --$t5 Slave Artisans --$t6 Natural Worship --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aFrom the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced migration stripped slaves of their liberty, it failed to destroy many of their cultural practices, which came with Africans to the New World. In Working the Diaspora, Frederick Knight examines work cultures on both sides of the Atlantic, from West and West Central Africa to British North America and the Caribbean.Knight demonstrates that the knowledge that Africans carried across the Atlantic shaped Anglo-American agricultural development and made particularly important contributions to cotton, indigo, tobacco, and staple food cultivation. The book also compellingly argues that the work experience of slaves shaped their views of the natural world. Broad in scope, clearly written, and at the center of current scholarly debates, Working the Diaspora challenges readers to alter their conceptual frameworks about Africans by looking at them as workers who, through the course of the Atlantic slave trade and plantation labor, shaped the development of the Americas in significant ways. 410 0$aCulture, Labor, History Series 606 $aSlave labor$zAmerica$xHistory 606 $aAgricultural laborers$zAmerica$xHistory 606 $aAfricans$zAmerica$xHistory 606 $aBlacks$zAmerica$xHistory 606 $aAgriculture$zAmerica$xHistory 606 $aAfrican diaspora 615 0$aSlave labor$xHistory. 615 0$aAgricultural laborers$xHistory. 615 0$aAfricans$xHistory. 615 0$aBlacks$xHistory. 615 0$aAgriculture$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican diaspora. 676 $a331.11/7340970903 700 $aKnight$b Frederick C$01721671 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822055903321 996 $aWorking the diaspora$94121454 997 $aUNINA