Title Africans in the old South : mapping exceptional lives across the Atlantic world / Randy J. Sparks

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London England : Harvard University Press, 2016 ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (204 pages) : maps Contents Anglo-African women join a plantation society -- Finding a transatlantic middle ground between Black and White -- From manservant to abolitionist and physician -- Navigating a way to freedom -- Unidentified Africans seek British protection -- Caught in the illegal slave trade Summary "The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history, yet most of its stories are lost. Randy Sparks examines the few remaining reconstructed experiences of West Africans who lived in the South between 1740 and 1860. Their stories highlight the diversity of struggles that confronted every African who arrived on American shores"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed August 5, 2019) Subject African Americans -- Southern States -- Biography Black people -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- Biography Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Biography Slave trade -- History BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) African Americans Black people Slave trade Enslaved persons SUBJECT Southern States -- History -- 18th century Southern States -- History -- 19th century Subject Atlantic Ocean Region Southern States Genre/Form Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674970137 0674970136

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