Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1     Material Life in West and West Central Africa, 1650–1800

2     Seeds of Change: African Agricultural Workers in the Anglo-American Colonies

3     Cultivating Knowledge: African Tobacco and Cotton Workers in Colonial British America

4     In an Ocean of Blue: West African Indigo Workers in the Atlantic World to 1800

5     Slave Artisans: Black Nonagricultural Workers in Colonial America and the Antebellum South

6     Natural Worship: Slavery, the Environment, and Black Consciousness in the Antebellum South

Notes

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Index

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