Africans in the Old South - Mapping Exceptional Lives Across the Atlantic World

Informationen zum Autor Randy J. Sparks is Professor of History at Tulane University. Klappentext The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history, yet most of its stories are lost. Randy Sparks examines the few remaining reconstructed experiences of West Africans who lived in the South between 1740 and 1860. Their stories highlight the diversity of struggles that confronted every African who arrived on American shores. Zusammenfassung The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history! yet most of its stories are lost. Randy Sparks examines the few remaining reconstructed experiences of West Africans who lived in the South between 1740 and 1860. Their stories highlight the diversity of struggles that confronted every African who arrived on American shores.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Randy J Sparks, Randy J. Sparks, Sparks Randy J.
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9780674495166
• ISBN: 978-0-674-49516-6
• Pagine: 224
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Biografie, autobiografie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Età moderna fino al 1918; USA, Ethnic Studies, Biography: general, HISTORY / World, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Black & Asian Studies, Slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery