TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fischer,David Hackett
TI  - African founders: how enslaved people expanded American ideals 
SN  - 9781982145095
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - African Americans
KW  - History
KW  - Africans
KW  - United States
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Freed persons
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Civilization
KW  - African American influences
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -