![]() | Working the Diaspora: The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850 Subjects: Slave labor -- America -- History; Agricultural laborers -- America -- History; Africans -- America -- History; Blacks -- America -- History; Agriculture -- America -- History; African diaspora; 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 Frederick C. : Frederick C. Knight is Chair of the Department of History at Morehouse College. |
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