Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the making of the Anglo-Dutch Americas, 1585-1660
About this book
331 readable pages of well organized, very well researched African History describing the complicated relationships amongst Angolan Kings, Queens and Lords; Congolese Christian Kings; Catholic Jesuits and Capuchins; and Portuguese slave traders for the period named in the Title. Co-winner of the 2008 Melville Herskovits Award for the Best Book Published in African Studies. Includes a comprehensive index and an appendix on Names of Africans Appearing in Early Colonial Records.
Subjects
African AmericansAfricansBlacksColoniesCommunity lifeCreolesHistoryRace relationsSlaverySocial conditionsAmerican history: c 1500 to c 1800Black studiesHistory of specific racial & ethnic groupsc 1600 to c 1700History: AmericanCaribbean islandsNorth AmericaHistory / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)United States - Colonial PeriodAfrican americans, historyBlacks, americaSlavery, americaGreat britain, colonies, americaNetherlands, colonies