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African founders : how enslaved people expanded American ideals
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African founders : how enslaved people expanded American ideals
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Description:
xii, 944 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Summary:
African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European origins to create new regional cultures in the colonial United States. The Africans brought with them linguistic skills, novel techniques of animal husbandry and farming, and generations-old ethical principles, among other attributes. This startling history reveals how much our country was shaped by these African influences in its early years, producing a new, distinctly American culture. Drawing on decades of research, some of it in western Africa, Fischer recreates the diverse regional life that shaped the early American republic. He shows that there were varieties of slavery in America and varieties of new American culture, from Puritan New England to Dutch New York, Quaker Pennsylvania, cavalier Virginia, coastal Carolina, and Louisiana and Texas. This landmark work of history will transform our understanding of America{u2019}s origins.
Contents:
Northern regions, New England -- Puritan purposes, Akan ethics, American values -- Hudson Valley -- Dutch capitalists, Angolan entrepreneurs, American strivers -- Delaware Valley -- Quaker founders, Guinea achievers, American reformers -- Southern regions, Chesapeake, Virginia and Maryland -- English masters, West African rebels, American leaders -- Coastal Carolina and Georgia -- Barbadian planters, Gullah-Geechee cultures, American roots -- Louisiana, Mississippi, and the Gulf Coast -- French, Spanish & Anglo rulers; Bamana, Benin & Congo clusters; American Pluralism -- Frontier regions, Western frontiers : free range slaves -- Fulani herders, Texas cowboys, American mustangers -- Maritime frontiers : saltwater slaves -- West African boatmen, Atlantic seamen, American mariners -- Southern frontiers : warrior slaves -- Angolan soldiers, Afro-Seminole warriors, U.S. Seminole-Negro scouts.
Publication Info:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
Subject:
African Americans -- History
Africans -- United States -- History.
Enslaved persons -- United States -- History.
Freed persons -- United States
Slavery -- United States -- History
United States -- Civilization -- African American influences
Black history
African American enslaved persons
Afro-American enslaved persons
Enslaved persons, African American
United States -- Civilization -- Afro-American influences
United States -- Civilization -- Negro influences
SAILS ISBN:
9781982145095