Linda M. Heywood

Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660

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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 in their formative period before 1660. It reveals that Central Africans were frequently possessors of an Atlantic Creole culture that included adaptation of Christianity and elements of European language, especially names and material culture. It places the movement of slaves and creation of the colonies within an Atlantic historical framework, including showing interactions among Africa, Europe, and all of the Americas. It explores the development of attitudes toward race, slav… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Thornton, John K.

ISBN: 978-0-521-77922-7
EAN: 9780521779227
Produktnummer: 3206023
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 386 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.2 cm 592 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 592

Über den Autor

John K. Thornton is Professor of African American Studies and History at Boston University. He is also W.E.B. DuBois Fellow at Harvard University and formerly Carter Woodson Fellow at the University of Virginia, as well as Professor of History at Millersville University and Allegheny College. He is a former Lecturer at the University of Zambia. He is author of The Kingdom of Kongo: Civil War and Transition, 1641-1718 (1983), African and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 (2nd edition, 1998), The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706 (1998), and Warfare in Atlantic Africa (1999). He has published in, among other journals, The Journal of African History, History in Africa, Cahiers d’etudes africaines, William and Mary Quarterly, American Historical Review, The Americas, and the International Journal of African Historical Studies.