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Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Award, 1993. Winner of the Elliott Rudwick Award, 1991.

"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 Historian

Table of Contents
Introduction 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

Africa in America Slave Acculturation and

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      Publisher University of Illinois Press
      Published 1 February 1995
      ISBN-13 9780252064463
      978-0252064463
      ISBN-10 0252064461
      Also in:
      Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Award, 1993. Winner of the Elliott Rudwick Award, 1991.

      "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 Historian

      Table of Contents
      Introduction 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

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