Working the Diaspora : The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850 / Frederick C. Knight.
2010
HD4865.A45 K65 2016
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Working the Diaspora : The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850 / Frederick C. Knight.
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9780814749128
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New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2010]
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©2010
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English
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In English.
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10.18574/nyu/9780814748183.001.0001 doi
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HD4865.A45 K65 2016
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331.117340970903
Summary
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.
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Culture, Labor, History ; ; 8
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Table of Contents
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
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