Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831
Michael Mullin| Pub Date: | 1995 |
| Pages: | 432 pages |
Awards and Recognition:
Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Award, 1993. Winner of the Elliott Rudwick Award, 1991.
Extensive archival and anecdotal sources support Michael Mullin's description of slavery as it was practiced in tidewater Virginia, on the rice coast of the Carolinas, and in Jamaica and Barbados. Drawing upon case histories, Mullin offers new and definitive information about how African's met and often overcame the challenges and deprivations of their new lives through religion, family life, and economic strategies.
"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
Subjects:
Southern History & Culture / Black Studies / African Studies / Caribbean Studies / Anthropology / History, Am.: 20th C. / History, Am.: 19th C.