Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the making of the Anglo-Dutch Americas, 1585-1660
By: Linda M. Heywood, John K. Thornton.
Contributors: Thornton, John Kelly, 1949-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780521770651; 9780521779227
Subjects: Africans -- America -- History -- 17th century; Blacks -- America -- History -- 17th century; Creoles -- America -- History -- 17th century; African Americans -- History -- 17th century; Community life -- America -- History -- 17th century; Slavery -- America -- History -- 17th century; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century; Netherlands -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century; America -- Social conditions -- 17th century; America -- Race relations -- History -- 17th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Privateering, colonial expansion, and the African presence in early Anglo-Dutch settlements; title: The Portuguese, Kongo, and Ndongo and the origins of Atlantic-Creole culture to 1607; title: Wars, civil unrest and the dynamics of enslavement in West Central Africa, 1607; title: 1660; title: Atlantic Creole culture : patterns of transformation and adaptations, 1607-60; title: Shifting status and the foundation of African American communities : Atlantic Creoles in the early Anglo-Dutch colonies; title: Becoming slaves : Atlantic Creoles and the defining of status figures.