Working the Diaspora

Name: Working the Diaspora
Brand: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780814748183
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The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850

Autor: Frederick Knight

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Editura: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the...

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Autor

Frederick Knight

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2010

Pagini

252

EAN

9780814748183

ISBN

081474818X

Enbook ID

04931767

Editura

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Greutate

476

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 23

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From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced migration stripped slaves of their liberty, it failed to destroy many of their cultural practices, which came with Africans to the New World. In "Working the Diaspora", Frederick Knight examines work cultures on both sides of the Atlantic, from West and West Central Africa to British North America and the Caribbean. Knight demonstrates that the knowledge that Africans carried across the Atlantic shaped Anglo-American agricultural development and made particularly important contributions to cotton, indigo, tobacco, and staple food cultivation. The book also compellingly argues that the work experience of slaves shaped their views of the natural world. Broad in scope, clearly written, and at the centre of current scholarly debates, "Working the Diaspora" challenges readers to alter their conceptual frameworks about Africans by looking at them as workers who, through the course of the Atlantic slave trade and plantation labour, shaped the development of the Americas in significant ways.

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