Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links

by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

Book Overview

Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Drawing on a wide range of materials in four languages as well as on her lifetime study of slave groups in the New World, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall explores the persistence of African ethnic identities among the enslaved over four hundred years of the Atlantic slave trade.

Hall traces the linguistic, economic, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807858625
• ISBN13: 9780807858622
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"