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Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660

This book establishes Central Africa as the origin of most Africans brought to English and Dutch colonies in North America, the Caribbean, and South America before 1660. It reveals that Central Africans were frequently possessors of an Atlantic Creole culture, places the movement of slaves and creation of the colonies.
Print Book, English, 2007
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2007
Historia
XIIII, 370 p. il. 24 cm
9780521770651, 0521770653
434468708
Privateering, colonial expansion, and the African presence in early Anglo-Dutch settlements
The Portuguese, Kongo, and Ndongo and the origins of Atlantic-Creole culture to 1607
Wars, civil unrest and the dynamics of enslavement in West Central Africa, 1607
1660
Atlantic Creole culture : patterns of transformation and adaptations, 1607-60
Shifting status and the foundation of African American communities : Atlantic Creoles in the early Anglo-Dutch colonies
Becoming slaves : Atlantic Creoles and the defining of status figures
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