Slavery and African ethnicities in the Americas : restoring the links / by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall.

Author/creator Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2005.
Descriptionxxi, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Contents Gold, God, race, and slaves -- Making invisible Africans visible : coasts, ports, regions, and ethnicities -- The clustering of African ethnicities in the Americas -- Greater Senegambia/Upper Guinea -- Lower Guinea : Ivory Coast, Gold Coast, Slave Coast/Bight of Benin -- Lower Guinea : the bight of Biafra -- Bantulands : west central Africa and Mozambique -- Conclusion : implications for culture formation in the Americas -- Appendix : prices of slaves by ethnicity and gender in Louisiana, 1719-1820.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 197-212) and index.
LCCN 2005005917
ISBN0807829730 (cloth : alk. paper)