Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-150).
Contents
From Creole to African : Atlantic Creoles and the origins of African-American society in mainland North America / Ira Berlin -- Gullah roots, from "A peculiar people" : slave religion and community-culture among the Gullahs / Margaret Washington -- The ancestry of inferiority (1619-1662), from Shades of freedom : racial politics and presumptions of the American legal process / A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. -- American chiaroscuro : the status and definition of mulattoes in the British colonies / Winthrop D. Jordan -- Slavery and freedom : the American paradox / Edmund S. Morgan.
