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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the Herbert G. Gutman Award, 1993. Winner of the Elliott Rudwick Award, 1991.
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Africa in America is more than another account of slave resistance and accommodation. It is a brilliant and provocative work of historical anthropology and a synthetic account of slavery that firmly places the subject in a comparative and long-term context. . . . Mullin's three-part chronology of resistance and rebellion is attractive in its simplicity and flexibility."--James D. Rice,
Southern HistorianTable of ContentsIntroduction 1
I THE UNSEASONED
1 Naming Africans 13
2 Africans Name Themselves 34
3 The Blood Oath, Play, and Ancestors 62
II PLANTATION SLAVES
4 Plantations: Case Studies 77
5 "Scientific" Planters: The Ideology of Industrial Regimentation in Mature Slave Societies 115
6 The Slaves' Economic Strategies: Food, Markets, and Property 126
7 Family 159
8 Plantation Religion and Resistance 174
III THE ASSIMILATEDS
9 Slave Resistance in an Era of War and Revolution, 1768-1805 215
10 Mission Christianity and Preemancipation Rebellion 241
11 Epilogue: Africa in America 268
Appendixes 281
Notes 309
Bibliography 385
Index 405
