'He gwine sing he country': Africans, Afro-Virginians, and the development of slave culture in Virginia, 1690-1810

Chambers, Douglas B. (Douglas Brent)

'He gwine sing he country': Africans, Afro-Virginians, and the development of slave culture in Virginia, 1690-1810 87 views

Author

Chambers, Douglas B. (Douglas Brent), History, University of Virginia

Advisors

Innes, Stephen , History , University of Virginia
Miller, Joseph , History , University of Virginia

Abstract

Slaves in colonial and early national Virginia drew on their particular ethnic African cultures, especially Igbo from present-day south-eastern Nigeria, to adapt to the conditions of slavery in the Chesapeake region. The dissertation identifies and describes the material, social and ideological resources on which numerically dominant Eboan [Igbo] peoples and their immediate descendants drew in order to adapt to the conditions in which they found themselves as slaves in Virginia.

Degree

PHD (Doctor of Philosophy)

Keywords

African Americans; Slavery--United States--History; Igbo (African people)

Notes

2 vol.
Also available online through Digital Dissertations.

Language

English

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Issued Date

1996-01-01

Persistent Link

https://doi.org/10.18130/xwrb-w959

Suggested Citation

Chambers, Douglas B. (Douglas Brent). 'He gwine sing he country': Africans, Afro-Virginians, and the development of slave culture in Virginia, 1690-1810. University of Virginia, History, PHD (Doctor of Philosophy), 1996-01-01, https://doi.org/10.18130/xwrb-w959.

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