Identity in the Shadow of Slavery.

Addresses issues relating to the gender, ethnic and cultural factors through which enslaved Africans and their descendents interpreted their lives under slavery, thereby creating communities with a shared sense of identity. The focus of the book is on the ways in which identities were formulated under slavery and the ways in which the struggle to escape slavery and its legacy continued to affect the lives of descendents of slaves.The introductory essay explores an approach to the study of the African diaspora that looks outward from Africa and places the following chapters, written by leading aurthorities from Europe and North and South America, in the context of the theoretical literature.
Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements

1 Identifying Enslaved Africans in the African Diaspora
Paul E. Lovejoy

2 Cimarron Ethnicity and Cultural Adaptation in the Spanish Domains of the Cirum-Caribbean, 1503-1763
Jane Landers

3 Tracing Igbo into the African Diaspora
Douglas B. Chambers

4 Regla de Ocha-Ifa and the Construction of Cuban Identity
Christine Ayorinde

5 Cultural Zones in the Era of the Slave Trade: Exploring the Yoruba Connection with the Anlo-Ewe
Sandra E. Greene

6 Texts of Enslavement: Fon and Yoruba Vocabularies from Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Brazil
Olabiyi Yai

7 Ethnic and Religious Plurality among Yoruba Immigrants in Trinidad in the Nineteenth Century
Maureen Warner-Lewis

8 Portraits of African Royalty in Brazil
Alberto da Costa e Silva

9 Slavery, Marriage and Kinship in Rural Rio de Janeiro, 1790-1830
Manolo Garcia Florentino and Jose Roberto Goes

10 Female Enslavement in the Caribbean and Gender Ideologies
Hilary McD. Beckles

11 Those Who Remained Behind: Women Slave in Nineteenth-century Yorubaland
Francine Shields

12 'She Voluntarily Hath Come': A Gambian Woman Trader in Colonial Georgia in the Eighteenth Century
Lillian Ashcraft-Eason