Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents xi
4. Tables xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Ethiopians and the Graeco-Roman World 11
7. 2. The African Diaspora and the Civilization of Islam 37
8. 3. The Dynamics of African Dispersal: The Transatlantic Slave Trade 57
9. 4. The Slave Trade in Congo and Angola 75
10. 5. Charleston: Terminus and Entrepôt of the Colonial Slave Trade 114
11. 6. The African in Colonial Brazil 132
12. 7. Africans in Britain, 1500-1800 172
13. 8. The Establishment of a Free Black Community in Nova Scotia, 1783-1840 205
14. 9. The French West Indies: Dualism from 1848 To the Present 237
15. 10. Religions of the Caribbean 280
16. 11. Religion in the Formation of West Indian Society: Guyana and Jamaica 312
17. 12. Vodun and the Politics of Haiti 342
18. 13. Class or Communalism? A Study of the Politics of Creoles in Mauritius 366
19. 14. Creolization on Fernando Po: The Nature of Society 391
20. 15. Afro-American Social Structure, 1790-1970 414
21. 16. The Political Status of American Negroes in the Twentieth Century 459
22. Authors 485
23. Index 489