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Exchanging Our Country Marks : The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South
author
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Gomez, Michael Angelo.
publisher
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University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
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0807823872
print isbn13
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9780807823873
ebook isbn13
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9780807861714
language
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English
subject
African Americans--Southern States--Ethnic identity, African Americans--Race identity--Southern States, Slaves--Southern States--Social life and customs, Southern States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Southern States--History--1775-1865.
publication date
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1998
lcc
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E185.18.G18 1998eb
ddc
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305.896/073075
subject
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African Americans--Southern States--Ethnic identity, African Americans--Race identity--Southern States, Slaves--Southern States--Social life and customs, Southern States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Southern States--History--1775-1865.
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Exchanging Our Country Marks
The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South
Michael A. Gomez
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1998 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Designed by April Leidig-Higgins Set in Monotype Garamond by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gomez, Michael Angelo, 1955 Exchanging our country marks : the transformation of African identities in the colonial and antebellum South / by Michael A. Gomez. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8078-2387-2 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 0-8078-4694-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Afro-AmericansSouthern StatesEthnic identity. 2. Afro-AmericansSouthern StatesRace identity. 3. SlavesSouthern StatesSocial life and customs. 4. Southern StatesHistoryColonial period, ca. 16001775. 5. Southern StatesHistory17751865. I. Title. E185.15.G18 1998 97-21476 305.896'073075dc21 CIP
Chapter 4 appeared earlier, in somewhat different form, as "Muslims in Early America," Journal of Southern History 60 (November 1994): 671710, and is reprinted here with permission of the Journal of Southern History.
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For our son Nathan Manuel, born and died in 1976. II Samuel 12:2223
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Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
Chapter One Vesey's Challenge
1
Chapter Two Time and Space
17
Chapter Three Warriors, Charms, and Loas: Senegambia and the Bight of Benin
38
Chapter Four Prayin' on duh Bead: Islam in Early America
59
Chapter Five Societies and Stools: Sierra Leone and the Akan
88
Chapter Six I Seen Folks Disappeah: The Igbo and West Central Africa
114
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Chapter Seven Talking Half African: Middle Passage, Seasoning, and Language
154
Chapter Eight Tad's Query: Ethnicity and Class in African America
186
Chapter Nine Turning down the Pot: Christianity and the African-Based Community
244
Chapter Ten The Least of These
291
Appendix: Census Estimates for 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, and 1830
293
Notes
297
Selected Bibliography
349
Index
359
Page ix
Tables and Maps
Tables
2.1 Decadal Exports for the Whole of the British Slave Trade, 17001807
19
2.2 African Importation into North America, 16261810
20
2.3 Growth of the Black Population by Region, 16301780
21
2.4 Growth of the Black Population, 17901860
22
2.5 Estimates of the Percentage of African-Born, 16201860
23
2.6 New Estimates of Origins
28
2.7 Final Revision of Origins and Percentages of Africans Imported into British North America and Louisiana
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