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

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.

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