Africans in the Old South: Mapping Exceptional Lives Across the Atlantic World PDF
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AFRICANS IN THE OLD SOUTH AFRICANS IN THE OLD SOUTH •_ Mapping Exceptional Lives across the Atlantic World R J. S ANDY PARKS Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts London, England 2016 Copyright © 2016 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Amer ic a First printing Library of Congress Cataloging-i n-P ublication Data Sparks, Randy J., author. Africans in the old South : mapping exceptional lives across the Atlantic world / Randy J. Sparks. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-674-49516-6 (alk. paper) 1. African Americans— Southern States— Biography. 2. Blacks— Atlantic Ocean Region— Biography. 3. Slaves— Southern States— Biography. 4. Slave trade— History. 5. Southern States—H istory—18th century. 6. Southern States— History—19th century. I. Title. E185.615.S695 2016 305.896'073075— dc23 2015030866 For Judith Lee Hunt Contents List of Maps ix Introduction 1 1. Anglo- African Women Join a Plantation Society 17 2. Finding a Transatlantic Middle Ground between Black and White 57 3. From Manservant to Abolitionist and Physician 81 4. Navigating a Way to Freedom 103 5. Unidentifi ed Africans Seek British Protection 123 6. Caught in the Illegal Slave Trade 134 Conclusion 157 Notes 167 Acknowl edgments 199 Index 201 Maps 1. Elizabeth and Catherine Cleveland 18 2. The Sherbro Region 20 3. Elizabeth Cleveland Hardcastle’s and Catherine Cleveland’s Lowcountry Neighborhood 25 4. Holman Family 58 5. Senegambia, Sierra Leone, and the Windward Coast 62 6. Holman Lowcountry Plantations 66 7. Robert Johnson 82 8. Dimmock Charlton 104 9. Three Unidentifi ed Africans 124 10. The U.S. Lower South 126 11. Old Calabar 128 12. Charles Smith 135 13. Sack N’Jaie 142 14. Moses F amily 145 15. Sierra Leone and Liberia 148 All maps by Rebecca Wren
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