Michael Mullin is a professor of history at California State University and the author of Flight and Rebellion: Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Virginia.

Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Award, 1993.  Winner of the Elliott Rudwick Award, 1991."Africa in America is more than another account of slave resistance and accommodation. It is a brilliant and provocative work of historical anthropology and a synthetic account of slavery that firmly places the subject in a comparative and long-term context. . . . Mullin's three-part chronology of resistance and rebellion is attractive in its simplicity and flexibility."--James D. Rice, Southern Historian

• Introduction   1I   THE UNSEASONED1   Naming Africans   132   Africans Name Themselves   343   The Blood Oath, Play, and Ancestors   62II   PLANTATION SLAVES4   Plantations: Case Studies   775   "Scientific" Planters: The Ideology of Industrial Regimentation in Mature Slave Societies   1156   The Slaves' Economic Strategies: Food, Markets, and Property   1267   Family   1598   Plantation Religion and Resistance   174III   THE ASSIMILATEDS9   Slave Resistance in an Era of War and Revolution, 1768-1805   21510   Mission Christianity and Preemancipation Rebellion   24111   Epilogue: Africa in America   268Appendixes   281Notes   309Bibliography   385Index   405

Michael Mullin is a professor of history at California State University and the author of Flight and Rebellion: Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Virginia.

Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Award, 1993.  Winner of the Elliott Rudwick Award, 1991."Africa in America is more than another account of slave resistance and accommodation. It is a brilliant and provocative work of historical anthropology and a synthetic account of slavery that firmly places the subject in a comparative and long-term context. . . . Mullin's three-part chronology of resistance and rebellion is attractive in its simplicity and flexibility."--James D. Rice, Southern Historian

• Introduction   1I   THE UNSEASONED1   Naming Africans   132   Africans Name Themselves   343   The Blood Oath, Play, and Ancestors   62II   PLANTATION SLAVES4   Plantations: Case Studies   775   "Scientific" Planters: The Ideology of Industrial Regimentation in Mature Slave Societies   1156   The Slaves' Economic Strategies: Food, Markets, and Property   1267   Family   1598   Plantation Religion and Resistance   174III   THE ASSIMILATEDS9   Slave Resistance in an Era of War and Revolution, 1768-1805   21510   Mission Christianity and Preemancipation Rebellion   24111   Epilogue: Africa in America   268Appendixes   281Notes   309Bibliography   385Index   405

Michael Mullin is a professor of history at California State University and the author of Flight and Rebellion: Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Virginia.

Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Award, 1993.  Winner of the Elliott Rudwick Award, 1991."Africa in America is more than another account of slave resistance and accommodation. It is a brilliant and provocative work of historical anthropology and a synthetic account of slavery that firmly places the subject in a comparative and long-term context. . . . Mullin's three-part chronology of resistance and rebellion is attractive in its simplicity and flexibility."--James D. Rice, Southern Historian

• Introduction   1I   THE UNSEASONED1   Naming Africans   132   Africans Name Themselves   343   The Blood Oath, Play, and Ancestors   62II   PLANTATION SLAVES4   Plantations: Case Studies   775   "Scientific" Planters: The Ideology of Industrial Regimentation in Mature Slave Societies   1156   The Slaves' Economic Strategies: Food, Markets, and Property   1267   Family   1598   Plantation Religion and Resistance   174III   THE ASSIMILATEDS9   Slave Resistance in an Era of War and Revolution, 1768-1805   21510   Mission Christianity and Preemancipation Rebellion   24111   Epilogue: Africa in America   268Appendixes   281Notes   309Bibliography   385Index   405