African Diaspora

by Alusine Jalloh, Stephen E. Maizlish

Overview

As Africans and descendants of slaves have sought to expand an understanding of their history, focus on the African diaspora--the global dispersal of a people and their culture--has increased. African studies have assumed a prominent place in historical scholarship, and a growing number of non-African scholars has helped revise a discipline established over several decades.

The six contributions in this volume were compiled as a result of the thirtieth Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture held at the University of Texas at Arlington. The contributors, nationally recognized in the field, represent a collaborative analysis of the African diaspora from African and non-African perspectives.

Joseph E. Harris discusses how the African diaspora influences the economies, politics, and social dynamics of both the homeland and the host country. Alusine Jalloh reconstructs the mercantile activities of the Fula in colonial Sierra Leone.

Joseph E. Inikori argues that slavery and serfdom in medieval Europe provide greater insights into precolonial Africa than do standard New World comparisons. Colin A. Palmer examines the power relationships that undergirded American slavery in order to better understand the enslaved.

Douglas B. Chambers reveals the enduring influence of Africanisms in the historical development of Afro-Virginian slave culture. And Dale T. Graden looks at African slavery in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil between 1848 and 1856, focusing on the Bahian elite and their response to slave resistance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780890967317
Publisher:	Texas A&M University Press
Publication date:	06/01/2000
Series:	Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press , #30
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.39(d)

About the Author

Alusine Jalloh is an assistant professor of history and founding director of the Africa Program at the University of Texas at Arlington.Stephen E. Maizlish is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
	Introduction	3
	The Dynamics of the Global African Diaspora	7
	The Fula Trading Diaspora in Colonial Sierra Leone	22
	Slavery in Africa and the Transatlantic Slave Trade	39
	Rethinking American Slavery	73
	"He Is an African But Speaks Plain": Historical Creolization in Eighteenth-Century Virginia	100
	"This City Has Too Many Slaves Joined Together": The Abolitionist Crisis in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 1848--1856	134