Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the making of the Anglo-Dutch Americas, 1585-1660

By Linda Marinda Heywood, John K. Thornton

Subjects: Great britain, colonies, america, E29.n3 h49 2007, Colonies, North America, Black studies, Africans--america--history--17th century, African americans, history, African Americans, Congo, Race relations--history, Angolan History, Community life--america--history--17th century, United States - Colonial Period, Community life--history, American history: c 1500 to c 1800, History: American, Umbundu, Creoles--america--history--17th century, Community life, Slavery, Africans, Jesuit, Atlantic Slave Trade, Slavery--history, Kongo, Netherlands, colonies, Blacks--history, African americans--history, Black people, Creoles--history, Colonies--history, Blacks, america, Kimbundo, Slavery--america--history--17th century, 306.3/620899674107, Blacks--america--history--17th century, History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Social conditions, Slavery, america, African americans--history--17th century, Blacks, African History, c 1600 to c 1700, Creoles, Kikongo, History, Africans--history, History of specific racial & ethnic groups, Congolese History, Race relations, Capuchin, America, race relations, Caribbean islands

Description: 331 readable pages of well organized, very well researched African History describing the complicated relationships amongst Angolan Kings, Queens and Lords; Congolese Christian Kings; Catholic Jesuits and Capuchins; and Portuguese slave traders for the period named in the Title. Co-winner of the 2008 Melville Herskovits Award for the Best Book Published in African Studies. Includes a comprehensive index and an appendix on Names of Africans Appearing in Early Colonial Records.