Trans-atlantic Dimensions of Ethnicity in the African Diaspora (Black Atlantic) 1st edition

This group of essays, resulting from research affiliated with the UNESCO Slave Route Project, explores trans-Atlantic linkages and cultural overlays during the era of slavery and after. The essays concentrate on ethnicity and culture and their manifestations on both sides of the Atlantic and draw on new methodologies and new sources relating to the emergence of the African diaspora, one of the major historical phenomena of the modern era.