Identity, Spirit and Freedom in the Atlantic World: The Gold Coast and the African Diaspora

by Robert Hanserd

Book Overview

This book applies oral, archival and other interdisciplinary evidence from West Africa and the Americas to analyses of new world Maroons, slaves and free blacks, examining a "Gold Coast" entrepot of Akan, Ga, Guan and other peoples in an Atlantic era of non-linear, mutable intersection of contested history and culture.

Combining extant evidence with newer interdisciplinary insights to reconsider under-recognized histories and actors,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367786036
• ISBN13: 9780367786038
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"