Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America

135 Pages·2003·4.2 MB·English

by  Peter H. Wood

Strange
New Land
AFRICANS IN
COLONIAL AMERICA

Strange
New Land
AFRICANS IN
COLONIAL AMERICA
Peter H.Wood
OXFORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Copyright © 1996, 2003 by Peter H. Wood
First published in hardcover as volume 2 of The Young
Oxford History of African Americans
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ISBN-13: 978-0-19-515823-6
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Frontispiece: Inspection and sale of a negro, by Whitney,
Jocelyn & Annin, 1854
For L i I ,
w i th love
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Contents
PREFACE
Buried Beyond the Fence xi
CHAPTER 1
The Earliest Africans in North America 1
CHAPTER 2
The Uncertain Century 1 3
CHAPTER 3
The Terrible Transformation 2 3
CHAPTER 4
A Nation of Newcomers 3 5
CHAPTER 5
A World of Work 47
CHAPTER 6
Building a Culture 5 9
CHAPTER 7
Breaking the Bonds 7 3
CHAPTER 8
"Liberty! Liberty!" 84
CHRONOLO GY 95
FURTHER READING 98
INDEX 105
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Strange
New Land
AFRICANS IN
COLONIAL AMERICA