Papers originally presented at the UNESCO/SSHRCC Summer Institute, "Identifying Enslaved Africans : the 'Nigerian' Hinterland and the African Diaspora," held at York University, Toronto, July 14-August 1, 1997. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Identifying enslaved Africans in the African diaspora / Paul E. Lovejoy -- Cimarrón ethnicity and cultural adaptation in the Spanish domains of the circum-Caribbean, 1503-1763 / Jane Landers -- Tracing Igbo into the African diaspora / Douglas B. Chambers -- Regla de Ocha-Ifá and the construction of Cuban identity / Christine Ayorinde -- Cultural zones in the era of the slave trade : Exploring the Yoruba connection with the Anlo-Ewe / Sandra E. Greene -- Texts of enslavement : Fon and Yoruba vocabularies from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Brazil / Olabiyi Yai -- Ethnic and religious plurality among Yoruba immigrants in Trinidad in the nineteenth century / Maureen Warner-Lewis -- Portraits of African royalty in Brazil / Alberto da Costa e Silva -- Slavery, marriage and kinship in rural Rio de Janeiro, 1790-1830 / Manolo Garcia Florentino and José Roberto Góes -- Female enslavement in the Caribbean and gender ideologies / Hilary McD. Beckles -- Those who remained behind : women slaves in nineteenth-century Yorubaland / Francine Shields -- 'She voluntarily hath come' : a Gambian woman trader in colonial Georgia in the eighteenth century / Lillian Ashcraft-Eason.
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