Verlag: Yale University Press, New Haven CT, 1983
ISBN 10: 0300030304 ISBN 13: 9780300030303
Anbieter: Row By Row Bookshop, Sugar Grove, NC, USA
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Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A Very Good copy of this 444-page large-format paperback. Light tanning at the outer edges of the text block, clean/unmarked within, with little cover wear. (Not ex-library.). Book.
Verlag: New Haven: Yale University Press, ()., 1983
Anbieter: Lighthouse Books, ABAA, Dade City, FL, USA
Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 444 pp. Fine in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: This.collection of documents portrays the encounter of Africans and Europeans in the New World, in order to explore what was and is distinctly Afro-American in the cultures of the Americas. Vivid selections from travel books, journals, and missionary accounts give firm evidence that, contrary to widespread opinion, strong pan-African elements of social and cultural life were maintained under plantation conditions -- especially in the areas of worship, belief, entertainment, and other dimensions of expressive culture. Roger D. Abrahams and John F. Szwed have arranged the documents primarily according to the major areas of expressive life. Introductions to the book as a whole and to each section explore many of the issues in the continuing debate over the nature of Afro-American culture. In an appendix the authors provide for comparative purposes accounts of slave lives in the southernern United States. Black History, African American History, African History, Slavery, West Indies, Caribbean, Caribbeana. yxsli.