Working the diaspora
Subtitle: the impact of African labor on the Anglo-American world, 1650-1850
By: Frederick C. Knight
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780814748183
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-216) and index.
Table of contents: title: Material life in west and West Central Africa, 1650-1800 : an introduction; title: Seeds of change : African agricultural workers in the Anglo-American colonies; title: Cultivating knowledge : African tobacco and cotton workers in the Americas; title: In an ocean of blue : West African indigo workers in the Atlantic world to 1800; title: Building Africans : black workers in colonial America and the antebellum south; title: Natural worship : slavery, the environment, and black consciousness in the antebellum.