A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore
Subtitle: The Oral Literature, Traditions, Recollections, Legends, Tales, Songs, Religious Beliefs, Customs, Sayings and Humor of Peoples of African Descent in the Americas
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Marlowe & Company
Published: February 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 618
ISBN-13: 9781569248119
Subjects: Black studies; Folklore; Sociology; Black American Folklore; Literature: Folklore/Mythology; The Americas; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; African Americans
First sentence: Among the Africans transported as slaves to the New World, beginning early in the sixteenth century, were people from the Sudanic regions, the Guinea Coast, the Zaire (Congo) River watershed and even from the eastern side of the African continent.