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

Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660
ISBN-10
0521770653
ISBN-13
9780521770651
Category
History
Pages
370
Language
English
Published
2007-09-10
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Authors
John K. Thornton, Linda M. Heywood

Description

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 before 1660. It reveals that Central Africans were frequently possessors of an Atlantic Creole culture and places the movement of slaves and creation of the colonies within an Atlantic historical framework.

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