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Working the diaspora [[electronic resource] ] : the impact of African labor on the Anglo-American world, 1650-1850 / / Frederick C. Knight



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Autore: Knight Frederick C Visualizza persona
Titolo: Working the diaspora [[electronic resource] ] : the impact of African labor on the Anglo-American world, 1650-1850 / / Frederick C. Knight Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, 2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 p.)
Disciplina: 331.11/7340970903
Soggetto topico: Slave labor - America - History
Agricultural laborers - America - History
Africans - America - History
Black people - America - History
Agriculture - America - History
African diaspora
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Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Material Life in West and West Central Africa, 1650−1800 -- 2 Seeds of Change -- 3 Cultivating Knowledge -- 4 In an Ocean of Blue -- 5 Slave Artisans -- 6 Natural Worship -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Sommario/riassunto: From 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Working the diaspora  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8147-4834-1
0-8147-4912-7
1-4416-3663-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996582070103316
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Serie: Culture, Labor, History Series