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Informationen zum Autor Alton Hornsby, Jr is Fuller E. Callaway Professor of History at Morehouse College, and former editor of the Journal of Negro History . He is the author of Milestones in 20th Century Black History (1993), and Chronology of African American History (2nd edition, 1997). Klappentext A Companion to African American History is a collection of original and authoritative essays arranged thematically and topically, covering a wide range of subjects from the seventeenth century to the present day. From their origins in West Africa on the eve of slave trading, through slavery itself and its abolition in the turmoil of the Civil War, and then over the rest of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, as they struggled for freedom, identity, and place, African Americans occupy a central role in their country's history. This volume surveys the scholarly literature in African American history and provides a guide to the research, analyses, and various interpretations and perspectives that historians have developed over the past fifty years. Each essay pays particular attention to geographical features as well as conceptual and methodological issues. In this volume, globalization, region, migration, gender, class, and social forces have been knitted into the broad cultural fabric of African American history. With this Companion , readers now have a complete source to the most recent theories and explanations for the changing contours of African American life. Zusammenfassung Presents a collection of essays that cover a wide range of subjects since the seventeenth century. This book includes discussions of globalization! region! migration! gender! class and social forces that make up the broad cultural fabric of African American history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on the Contributors x Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Alton Hornsby, Jr Part I Africa and Other Roots 3 1 Life and Work in West Africa 5 Augustine Konneh 2 Africans in Europe prior to the Atlantic Slave Trade 23 Maghan Keita 3 The African and European Slave Trades 48 Walter C. Rucker 4 Africans in the Caribbean and Latin America: The Post-Emancipation Diaspora 67 Frederick D. Opie Part II Africans in Early North America 87 5 Ethnicity, Nationality, and Race in Colonial America 89 Jeffrey Elton Anderson 6 Not Chattel, Not Free: Quasi-Free Blacks in the Colonial Era 105 Antonio F. Holland and Debra Foster Greene 7 Africans and Native Americans 121 Tiya Miles and Barbara Krauthamer Part III In the House of Bondage 141 8 Origins and Institutionalization of American Slavery 143 Jason R. Young 9 Labor in the Slave Community, 1700-1860 159 Frederick C. Knight 10 Spirituality and Socialization in the Slave Community 176 Jason R. Young 11 Slave Rebels and Black Abolitionists 199 Stanley Harrold Part IV: Transculturation 217 12 The Americanization of Africans and the Africanization of America 219 Samuel T. Livingston 13 African Americans and an Atlantic World Culture 235 Walter C. Rucker Part V: The Civil War, Emancipation, and the Quest for Freedom 255 14 African Americans and the American Civil War 257 Oscar R. Williams III and Hayward "Woody" Farrar 15 Jim Crowed - Emancipation Betrayed: African Americans Confront the Veil 271 Charles W. McKinney, Jr and Rhonda Jones Part VI: The Maturation of African American Communities and the Emergence of Independent Institutions 283 16 African American Religious and Fraternal Organizations 285 David H. Ja...
