Working the Diaspora: The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850

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vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Material Life in West and West Central Africa, 13 1650–1800 2 Seeds of Change: African Agricultural Workers in 33 the Anglo-American Colonies 3 Cultivating Knowledge: African Tobacco and 65 Cotton Workers in Colonial British America 4 In an Ocean of Blue: West African Indigo Workers 87 in the Atlantic World to 1800 5 Slave Artisans: Black Nonagricultural Workers in 111 Colonial America and the Antebellum South 6 Natural Worship: Slavery, the Environment, and 131 Black Consciousness in the Antebellum South Notes 155 Bibliography 193 Index 217 About the Author 229 ...