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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction Diasporic Africa: A View from History 1
4. Contributors 1
5. Part I. Transformations of the Cultural and Technological during Slavery
6. 1. In an Ocean of Blue:West African Indigo Workers in the Atlantic World to 1800 28
7. 2. Batuque: African Drumming and Dance between Repression and Concession: Bahia, 1808–1855 45
8. 3. The Evolution of Ritual in the African Diaspora: Central African Kilundu in Brazil, St. Domingue, and the United States, Seventeenth–Nineteenth Centuries 64
9. Part II. Memory and Instantiations of the Divine
10. 4. Bitter Herbs and a Lock of Hair: Recollections of Africa in Slave Narratives of the Garrisonian Era 84
11. 5. Embracing the Religious Profession: The Antebellum Mission of the Oblate Sisters of Providence 105
12. 6. Finding the Past, Making the Future: The African Hebrew Israelite Community’s Alternative to the Black Diaspora 123
13. 7. Spatial Responses of the African Diaspora in Jamaica: Focus on Rastafarian Architecture 147
14. Part III. Reconfiguring the Political/Contesting the Conceptual
15. 8. Blacks and Slavery in Morocco: The Question of the Haratin at the End of the Seventeenth Century 177
16. 9. Race and theMaking of the Nation: Blacks inModern France 200
17. 10. “[She] devoted twenty minutes condemning all other forms of government but the Soviet”: Black Women Radicals in the Garvey Movement and in the Left during the 1920s 219
18. 11. “Boundaries of Law and Disorder”: The “Grand Design” of Eldridge Cleaver and the “Overseas Revolution” in Cuba 251
19. 12. Writing the Diaspora in Black International Literature “With Wider Hope in Some More Benign Fluid . . .”: Diaspora Consciousness and Literary Expression 271
20. 13. Displacing Diaspora: Trafficking, African Women, and Transnational Practices 290
21. About the Contributors 309
22. Index 311