Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-216) and index.
Contents:
Material life in west and West Central Africa, 1650-1800 : an introduction -- Seeds of change : African agricultural workers in the Anglo-American colonies -- Cultivating knowledge : African tobacco and cotton workers in the Americas -- In an ocean of blue : West African indigo workers in the Atlantic world to 1800 -- Building Africans : black workers in colonial America and the antebellum south -- Natural worship : slavery, the environment, and black consciousness in the antebellum.
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