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

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From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. Even as this forced migration stripped slaves in their liberty, it failed to destroy many in their cultural practices, which came with Africans to the New World. In Working the Diaspora, Frederick Knight examines work cultures on both sides of the Atlantic, from West and West Central Africa to British North The us and the Caribbean.

Knight demonstrates that the knowledge that Africans carried around the Atlantic shaped Anglo-American agricultural development and made particularly essential contributions to cotton, indigo, tobacco, and staple food cultivation. The book also compellingly argues that the work experience of slaves shaped their views of the wildlife. Broad in scope, clearly written, and on the center of current scholarly debates, Working the Diaspora challenges readers to change their conceptual frameworks about Africans by having a look at them as workers who, during the course of the Atlantic slave trade and plantation labor, shaped the development of the Americas in significant ways.

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