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African founders : how enslaved people expanded American ideals / David Hackett Fischer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: xii, 944 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781982145095
  • 1982145099
  • 9781982145101
  • 1982145102
Other title:
  • How enslaved people expanded American ideals
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Contents:
Introduction -- Northern regions. New England: Puritan purposes, Akan ethics, American values ; Hudson Valley: Dutch capitalists, Angolan entrepreneurs, American strivers ; Delaware Valley: Quaker founders, Guinea achievers, American reformers -- Southern regions. Chesapeake, Virginia and Maryland: English founders, West African strivers, Afro-American leaders ; Coastal Carolina, Georgia and Florida: Barbadian planters, Gullah Geechee cultures, American roots ; Louisiana, Mississippi, and the Gulf Coast: French, Spanish and Anglo rulers; Bamana, Benin & Congo clusters; American Pluralism in the Mississippi Valley -- Frontier regions. Western frontiers: Fulani herders, Carolina cattlemen, Texas mustangers ; Maritime frontiers: West African boatmen, Atlantic seamen, American maritime traditions ; Southern frontiers: Angolan soldiers, AfroSpanish militias, U.S. Seminole Negro scouts - Summary and conclusion.
Summary: "A brilliant synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their descendants influenced the culture, commerce, and laws of the early United States"-- Provided by publisher
List(s) this item appears in: Black History Month for Adults
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 973.0496 F529 Available 33111010859581
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States.

African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European origins to create new regional cultures in the colonial United States. The Africans brought with them linguistic skills, novel techniques of animal husbandry and farming, and generations-old ethical principles, among other attributes. This startling history reveals how much our country was shaped by these African influences in its early years, producing a new, distinctly American culture.

Drawing on decades of research, some of it in western Africa, Fischer recreates the diverse regional life that shaped the early American republic. He shows that there were varieties of slavery in America and varieties of new American culture, from Puritan New England to Dutch New York, Quaker Pennsylvania, cavalier Virginia, coastal Carolina, and Louisiana and Texas.

This landmark work of history will transform our understanding of America's origins.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 751-890) and index.

Introduction -- Northern regions. New England: Puritan purposes, Akan ethics, American values ; Hudson Valley: Dutch capitalists, Angolan entrepreneurs, American strivers ; Delaware Valley: Quaker founders, Guinea achievers, American reformers -- Southern regions. Chesapeake, Virginia and Maryland: English founders, West African strivers, Afro-American leaders ; Coastal Carolina, Georgia and Florida: Barbadian planters, Gullah Geechee cultures, American roots ; Louisiana, Mississippi, and the Gulf Coast: French, Spanish and Anglo rulers; Bamana, Benin & Congo clusters; American Pluralism in the Mississippi Valley -- Frontier regions. Western frontiers: Fulani herders, Carolina cattlemen, Texas mustangers ; Maritime frontiers: West African boatmen, Atlantic seamen, American maritime traditions ; Southern frontiers: Angolan soldiers, AfroSpanish militias, U.S. Seminole Negro scouts - Summary and conclusion.

"A brilliant synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their descendants influenced the culture, commerce, and laws of the early United States"-- Provided by publisher

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