Africans and Indians: An Afrocentric Analysis of Contacts Between Africans and American Indians in Colonial Virginia / Edition 1

by Barbara Faggins

Overview

This fascinating text examines the union of Africans and American Indians in Virginia during colonial times.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415932219
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/07/2001
Series:	Studies in African American History and Culture
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Barbara A. Faggins received her Ph.d. at Temple University in Philadelphia, where she is currently a senior staff writer in the Office of News and Media Relations. She has written for Jet, Black Enterprise,The Philadelphia Tribune and Right On.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
Rationale
Purpose
Problem
General Background
Significance of the Study
2. Methodological Considerations
Introduction
A Framework
The Rearch Focus
Research Methodology
Specific Proceedure
Limitations
Definitions
3. Historical Perspectives
Blackness in Jamestown
Africans in the Colony of Virginia
Southside
Indians in Southside
The Origin Southside
The Origin of Native Americans
4. The Survival Period
The Middle Passage
First African/Indian Contacts in America
Africans in Southside
5. Social Relations
The New Black
Work Relations
Marriage
Politics
Blacks as Profits
Cherokee Laws Against Blacks
Life with First Americans
6.Conclusions
Recommendations
Resource List
Works Cited
Appendix
A. Routes of John Lederer's Journey
B. The Occaneechee Path